Managing intellectual capital: the MIC matrix

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 316-328

  Curado, Carla ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

intellectual capital; KBV; knowledge dynamics; knowledge management; knowledge based view; RBV; resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 64349101547     PISSN: 17411009     EISSN: 17411017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijkl.2007.015558     Document Type: Article

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