Corporate South Africa: Making multicultural knowledge sharing work

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 128-141

  Finestone, Nicozaan ^a   Snyman, Retha ^b  

^a Macmillan Publishing Group   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Multicultural management; Organizational culture; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344392868     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270510602827     Document Type: Article

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