Knowledge sharing in new organizational entities: The impact of hierarchy, organizational context, micro-politics and suspicion

Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-86

  Friesl, Martin ^a   Sackmann, Sonja A ^b   Kremser, Sebastian ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Deutsche Bundeswehr   (Germany)

Author keywords

Armed forces; Business formation; Germany; Knowledge sharing; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551497077     PISSN: 13527606     EISSN: 17586089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527601111104304     Document Type: Article

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