A scientometric analysis of the Proceedings of the McMaster World Congress on the Management of Intellectual Capital and Innovation for the 1996/2008 period

Journal of Intellectual Capital

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-21

  Serenko, Alexander ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b   Grant, Joshua ^b  

^a Lakehead University   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conferences; Data analysis; Intellectual capital; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 59949100280     PISSN: 14691930     EISSN: 1758468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14691930910922860     Document Type: Review

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