Issues in knowledge access, retrieval and sharing - Case studies in a Caribbean health sector

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2853-2863

  Mansingh, Gunjan ^a   Osei Bryson, Kweku Muata ^b   Reichgelt, Han ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare sector; Internal knowledge transaction costs; Knowledge flows; Knowledge items; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

HEALTHCARE SECTORS; INTERNAL KNOWLEDGE-TRANSACTION COSTS; KNOWLEDGE FLOW; KNOWLEDGE ITEMS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 56349101026     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.031     Document Type: Article

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