Sharing tacit knowledge: A case study in the australian film industry

Informing Science

Volumn 10, Issue , 2007, Pages 41-59

  Alony, Irit ^a   Whymark, Greg ^a   Jones, Michael ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Film industry; Knowledge sharing; Qualitative; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349014681     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/3119     Document Type: Article

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