Knowledge life cycle, knowledge inventory, and knowledge acquisition strategies

Decision Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-47

  Chen, Andrew N K ^a   Hwang, Yuhchang ^b   Raghu, T S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge inventory; Knowledge life cycle; Organizational slack; Simulation; Task assignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950280340     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2009.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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