Knowledge sharing in an organization

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1128-1156

  Yang, Heng Li ^a   Wu, Ted C T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Knowledge sharing; Organizational behaviour; Organizational incentive policy

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

AGENT-BASED MODELLING; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR; ORGANIZATIONAL INCENTIVE POLICY;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

GROUP BEHAVIOR; INCENTIVE; KNOWLEDGE; MODELING; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 51549095167     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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