Managing maintenance knowledge in the context of large engineering projects: Theory and case study

Journal of Information and Knowledge Management

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-307

  Hall, William P ^a,b  

^a Tenix Defence   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

annotation; contexts; Epistemology; explicit knowledge; Karl Popper; Michael Polanyi

Indexed keywords

EID: 19744373787     PISSN: 02196492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219649203000334     Document Type: Article

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