Sharing knowledge, being different and working as a team

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-14

  Rosendaal, Bastiaan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Expertise diversity; Knowledge sharing; Multinational corporations; Task interdependence; Teams; Value diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 61549084360     PISSN: 14778238     EISSN: 14778246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2008.32     Document Type: Article

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