The concept of knowledge work revisited

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 116-127

  Pyöriä, Pasi ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Information personnel; Information society; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444412990     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270510602818     Document Type: Article

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