The quality of group tacit knowledge

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-18

  Erden, Zeynep ^a   von Krogh, Georg ^a   Nonaka, Ikujiro ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collective action; Group tacit knowledge; Improvisation; Phronesis; Quality of group tacit knowledge; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

GROUP TACIT KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE QUALITY; PHRONESIS; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 42649120328     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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