It's 2008: Do you know where your talent is? Connecting people to what matters

Journal of Business Strategy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 4-14

  Athey, Robin ^a  

^a Robin Athey is based at Deloitte Services LP   (United States)

Author keywords

Employees; Management technique; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249161537     PISSN: 02756668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02756660810886953     Document Type: Article

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