Value creation through IT-supported knowledge management? The utilisation of a knowledge management system in a global consulting company

Informing Science

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 75-88

  Kautz, Karlheinz ^a   Mahnke, Volker ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adoption and utilisation; Global consulting; Knowledge management; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 5444268468     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/515     Document Type: Article

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