Innovation in management consulting firms through informal knowledge sharing

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-55

  Taminiau, Yvette ^a   Smit, Wouter ^b   de Lange, Annick ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b House of Performance   (Netherlands)

^c LimeStone Consultancy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Innovation; Knowledge sharing; Management consultancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749109887     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270910931152     Document Type: Article

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