Intensive knowledge sharing: Finnish Laurea lab case study

VINE

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-25

  Usoro, Abel ^a   Majewski, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551673858     PISSN: 03055728     EISSN: 14741032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03055721111115520     Document Type: Article

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