Fostering knowledge sharing in project management

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ramaprasad, Arkalgud ^a   Prakash, A N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AN Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt Ltd

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENTS; KNOWLEDGE TYPES; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM STATEMENTS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ONTOLOGY; TAXONOMIES;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78650760329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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