The quality of evidence in knowledge management research: Practitioner versus scholarly literature

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 110-126

  Ekbia, Hamid R ^a,b   Hara, Noriko ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Evidence; Knowledge management; Social informatics

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA ACQUISITION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY; PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE; SOCIAL INFORMATICS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38149011323     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551507080412     Document Type: Article

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