Streams of shared knowledge: Computational expansion of knowledge-flow theory

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 124-140

  Nissen, Mark E ^a   Orr, Ryan J ^b   Levitt, Raymond E ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational organization theory; Knowledge management; Knowledge flow theory; Organization studies; Specialization; Trans specialist knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649170372     PISSN: 14778238     EISSN: 14778246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2008.1     Document Type: Article

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