Linking chief knowledge officers with customer capital through knowledge management practices in the Spanish construction industry

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 389-404

  Navarro, Juan Gabriel Cegarra ^a   Dewhurst, Frank W ^b   Eldridge, Steve ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context in time; Knowledge management practices; Learning from demand; Open mindedness; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951240549     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190903546946     Document Type: Article

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