Conceptualizing knowledge work utilizing skill and knowledge-based concepts: The case of some consultants and service engineers

Management Learning

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 579-596

  Hislop, Donald ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Knowledge work; Labour process theory; Practice based epistemology

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249113939     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507608098116     Document Type: Article

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