The poetics of knowledge sharing: Putting aristotle to work in the enterprise

International Journal of Innovation and Learning

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-39

  Smoliar, Stephen W ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Distributed cognition; Eureka; Imitation; Innovation; Knowledge sharing; Learning; Narrative; Web based communities; Work practices

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING;

EID: 33846050053     PISSN: 14718197     EISSN: 17408016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2007.011473     Document Type: Article

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