The nonsense of 'knowledge management'

Information Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Wilson, T D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

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