A follow-up ranking of academic journals

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-26

  Bontis, Nick ^a   Serenko, Alexander ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intellectual capital; Knowledge management; Serials

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049139359     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270910931134     Document Type: Article

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