Organisational memories in project-based companies: An autopoietic view

Learning Organization

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-162

  Koskinen, Kaj U ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Knowledge creation; Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77449129369     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696471011019862     Document Type: Article

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