Studying knowledge transfer with weblogs in small and medium enterprises: An exploratory case study

Scalable Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 243-258

  Stocker, Alexander ^a   Strohmaier, Markus ^b   Tochtermann, Klaus ^b  

^a KNOW CENTER   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Knowledge transfer; Small and medium enterprises; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE; CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER; CORPORATE CONTEXTS; EXPLORATORY CASE STUDIES; IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; WEBLOGS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78649560030     PISSN: 18951767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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