National culture and the standardization versus adaptation of knowledge management

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 5-21

  Ang, Zhiyi ^a   Massingham, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Explicit information; Generation and dissemination of information; Knowledge management; Tacit information

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547393973     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270710738889     Document Type: Article

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