An integrated decision support model for a knowledge city's strategy formulation

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 65-86

  Ergazakis, Kostas ^a   Metaxiotis, Kostas ^b   Psarras, John ^a   Askounis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

^b Ministry of Economy and Finance   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cities; Citizens; Decision making; Emergent strategy; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548800332     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270710819816     Document Type: Article

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