Managing knowledge conflicts in an interorganizational project: A case study of the infocomm development authority of Singapore

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1187-1199

  Tan, Chee Wee ^a   Pan, Shan Ling ^b   Lim, Eric Tze Kuan ^b   Chan, Calvin Meng Lai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CORPORATE QUEST; CRITICAL RESOURCES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 27644535248     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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