Social network analysis and communities of practice

Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 474-480

  Assimakopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Yan, Jie ^a  

^a GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

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EID: 33845632238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-556-6.ch079     Document Type: Chapter

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