Fostering innovation by unlearning tacit knowledge

Kybernetes

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 406-419

  Rebernik, Miroslav ^a   Širec, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Innovation; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; INNOVATION PROCESS; LITERATURE SURVEY; MUTUAL LEARNING; OBSERVATION AND MEASUREMENT; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34249022956     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920710747039     Document Type: Article

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