Development and evaluation of a knowledge risk management model for project-based organizations: A multi-stage study

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 309-329

  Jafari, Mostafa ^a   Rezaeenour, Jalal ^a   Mahdavi Mazdeh, Mohammad ^a   Hooshmandi, Atefe ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Knowledge management; Modelling; Organizational change; Project management; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952776236     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111120725     Document Type: Article

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