Knowledge sharing: Moving away from the obsession with best practices

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-47

  Christensen, Peter Holdt ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Best practice; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Organizational behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847410076     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270710728222     Document Type: Article

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