Discontinuity in organisations: Identifying business environments affecting efficiency of knowledge flows in Product Lifecycle Management

International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-36

  Ibrahim, Rahinah ^a   Paulson Jr , Boyd C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Business environments; Discontinuous membership; KM; Knowledge flows; Knowledge Management; PLM; Product Lifecycle Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 50349096185     PISSN: 17435110     EISSN: 17435129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPLM.2008.019972     Document Type: Article

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