Is trust really social capital? Knowledge sharing in product development projects

Learning Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 594-605

  Bakker, Marloes ^a   Leenders, Roger Th A J ^a   Gabbay, Shaul M ^b   Kratzer, Jan ^a   Van Engelen, Jo M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; New products; Product development; Social capital; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749070625     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470610705479     Document Type: Article

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