An empirical study of the important factors for knowledge-management adoption in the SME sector

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 64-82

  Wong, Kuan Yew ^a   Aspinwall, Elaine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Knowledge management; Small to medium sized enterprises; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344383220     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270510602773     Document Type: Article

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