Sources of knowledge acquisition for Chinese software engineers

R and D Management

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-106

  Assimakopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Yan, Jie ^a  

^a GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

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EID: 33645068850     PISSN: 00336807     EISSN: 14679310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9310.2005.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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