A viable systems perspective to knowledge management

Kybernetes

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 636-651

  Yang, Chyan ^a   Yen, Hsueh Chuan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIENKUO TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Organizations; Systems analysis

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; VIABLE SYSTEMS MODELS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34250351338     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920710749721     Document Type: Article

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