Operationalising intellectual capital management: Choosing a suitable approach

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 25-37

  Kujansivu, Paula ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Best practice; Case studies; Intellectual capital; Operations management

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949122578     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040810881171     Document Type: Article

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