Knowledge creation and business format franchising

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-188

  Lindblom, Arto ^a   Tikkanen, Henrikki ^a  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Business policy; Franchising; Information transfer; Knowledge creation; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949324459     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011022563     Document Type: Article

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