The "global" and the "local" in knowledge management

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-112

  Davis, Joseph G ^a   Subrahmanian, Eswaran ^b   Westerberg, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Knowledge organizations; Multinational companies

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944412170     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270510582992     Document Type: Article

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