Preliminary approach to improve knowledge management in engineering management

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1950-1964

  Abdul Rahman, H ^a   Wang, Chen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Construction performance; Engineering management; Knowledge; Knowledge management; Project quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957344316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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