Organizational culture as a knowledge repository for increased innovative capacity

Technovation

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 483-498

  Lemon, Mark ^a   Sahota, Parminder Singh ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovative capacity; Knowledge audit; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

INNOVATIVE CAPACITY; KNOWLEDGE AUDIT; KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 2442580834     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4972(02)00102-5     Document Type: Article

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