On the nature of knowledge: Rethinking popular assumptions

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Keane, Brian T ^a   Mason, Robert M ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT(KM); ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITY;

MANAGEMENT; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 33749667626     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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