Property in knowledge work: An appropriation-learning perspective

Employee Relations

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-80

  Pinnington, Ashly H ^a   Kamoche, Ken ^b   Suseno, Yuliani ^c  

^a THE BRITISH UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empowerment; Generation and dissemination of information; Human resource management; Knowledge management; Lawyers; Retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049135639     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450910916823     Document Type: Article

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