Top executive knowledge leadership: Managing knowledge to lead change at general electric

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 429-446

  Lakshman, C ^a  

^a LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

case study; knowledge management; Leadership; structured content analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846924283     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697010500401540     Document Type: Article

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