Creativity, chaos and knowledge management

Business Information Review

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-123

  Smith, Sara ^a   Paquette, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Chaos; Chaos theory; Knowledge creation; Organizational structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954206471     PISSN: 02663821     EISSN: 17416450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266382110366956     Document Type: Article

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