What do organizations know? Dynamics of justification contexts in R&D activities

Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 443-471

  Tell, Fredrik ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Justification; Organizational knowledge; Practice; R D organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042811506     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508404044057     Document Type: Article

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