Organisational issues for knowledge management in SMEs

International Journal of Business and Systems Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 367-379

  Pillania, Rajesh K ^a  

^a MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Communities of practices; Competitive advantage; Knowledge management; Knowledge workers; Organisational culture; Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849118675     PISSN: 1751200X     EISSN: 17512018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.015835     Document Type: Article

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