Integrating knowledge management technologies in organizational business processes: Getting real time enterprises to deliver real business performance

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-28

  Malhotra, Yogesh ^a,b,c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRINT Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Business performance; Knowledge management; Real time scheduling; Return on investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944400776     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270510582938     Document Type: Article

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