The absence of cooperation is not necessarily defection: Structural and motivational constraints of knowledge transfer in a social dilemma situation

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1141-1164

  Wilkesmann, Uwe ^a   Wilkesmann, Maximiliane ^a   Virgillito, Alfredo ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hospital; Knowledge management; Knowledge transfer; Social dilemma

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449369389     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609344385     Document Type: Article

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