Who needs memory? the case for the Markovian organisation

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 110-116

  Klein, Jonathan ^a   Connell, Con ^a   Jasimuddin, Sajjad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management cognition; Organisational learning; Organisational memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547330414     PISSN: 14778238     EISSN: 14778246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500130     Document Type: Article

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