The interplay between individual and collective knowledge: Technologies for organisational learning and knowledge building

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-44

  Kimmerle, Joachim ^a   Cress, Ulrike ^b   Held, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative systems; Knowledge and information; Knowledge communities; Knowledge management tools; Organisational learning; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249124420     PISSN: 14778238     EISSN: 14778246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2009.36     Document Type: Article

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