A contingent approach on knowledge portal design for R&D teams: Relative importance of knowledge portal functionalities

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3662-3670

  Lee, Hong Joo ^a   Kim, Jong Woo ^b   Koh, Joon ^c  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Knowledge portal; R D team; Team characteristic

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PORTALS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; KNOWLEDGE PORTALS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS; RESEARCH ORGANIZATION; SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE; TASK CHARACTERISTICS; TEAM CHARACTERISTIC;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 56349087796     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.02.061     Document Type: Article

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