Managing trade-offs and tensions between knowledge management initiatives and expertise development practices

Management Learning

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-82

  Oshri, Ilan ^a,d   Pan, Shan L ^b   Newell, Sue ^c,e  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Conflict; Expertise development; Knowledge management; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747873278     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507606060982     Document Type: Article

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