Thinking differently about knowledge-intensive firms: Insights from early medieval irish monasticism

Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 549-566

  McGrath, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Knowledge intensive firms; Medieval monasticism; Premodern

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144456653     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508405052756     Document Type: Article

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