A study of a mentoring program for knowledge transfer in a small software consultancy company

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3547, Issue , 2005, Pages 245-256

  Bjørnson, Finn Olav ^a   Dingsøyr, Torgeir ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; MENTOR PROGRAMS; SOFTWARE CONSULTANCY; TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 26444432231     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11497455_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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