Organizational knowledge creation in the chinese context

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-278

  Walsh, Ian J ^a   Bhatt, Mamta ^a   Bartunek, Jean M ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Contextualized research; Innovation; Knowledge creation; Organizational forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350271437     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2008.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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