A study on customer, supplier, and competitor knowledge using the knowledge chain model

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 488-496

  Tseng, Shu Mei ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Competitor knowledge; Customer knowledge; Knowledge chain; Supplier knowledge

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

COMPETITOR KNOWLEDGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; INTERPRETATIVE CASE STUDY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND SHARING; KNOWLEDGE CHAIN; SUPPLIER KNOWLEDGE;

SALES;

EID: 70449533668     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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