Knowledge sharing practices as a facilitating factor for improving organizational performance through human capital: A preliminary test

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1316-1326

  Hsu, I Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Human capital; Innovation strategy; Knowledge sharing; Performance; Top management knowledge values

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LEAD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES; DATA COLLECTED; ELSEVIER (CO); HUMAN CAPITAL (HC); INNOVATION STRATEGIES; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; TOP MANAGEMENT;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 44949124531     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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