Measuring the impact of knowledge loss: More than ripples on a pond?

Management Learning

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 541-560

  Massingham, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Employee turnover; Knowledge loss; Measuring resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249138547     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507608096040     Document Type: Article

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