A scientometric analysis of knowledge management and intellectual capital academic literature (19942008)

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-23

  Serenko, Alexander ^a   Hardie, Timothy ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b   Booker, Lorne ^b   Sadeddin, Khaled ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intellectual capital; Knowledge management; Productivity rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049102397     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673271011015534     Document Type: Article

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