Building a knowledge sharing company - Evidence from the Finnish insurance industry

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 10-

  Widen Wulff G ^a   Suomi, R ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSURANCE;

COMMUNICATION PROCESS; INSURANCE COMPANIES; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING ORGANIZATION; LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 7044250913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2003.1173747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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