Making sense of knowledge transfer and social capital generation for a Pacific island aid infrastructure project

Learning Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 475-494

  Manu, Christopher ^a   Walker, Derek H T ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Knowledge transfer; Learning; Organizations; Project management; Social capital; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746742263     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470610679992     Document Type: Article

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