The "codification debate" revisited: A conceptual framework to analyze the role of tacit knowledge in economics

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 823-849

  Balconi, Margherita ^a   Pozzali, Andrea ^b   Viale, Riccardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c Fondazione Rosselli   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMICS; KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 35648935905     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtm025     Document Type: Article

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