An ecological model for organizational knowledge management

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 11-22

  Chen, Deng Neng ^a   Liang, Ting Peng ^b,c   Lin, Binshan ^d  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge ecology; Knowledge management; The DICE model

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPLICIT AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION; KNOWLEDGE ECOLOGIES; KNOWLEDGE INTERACTION; ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE;

BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77953006115     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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