To share or not to share: Modeling tacit knowledge sharing, its mediators and antecedents

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 411-428

  Lin, Chieh Peng ^a  

^a VANUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cooperativeness; Justice; Knowledge management; Organizational commitment; Trust in co workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846677378     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9119-0     Document Type: Article

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