Collective expertise: Ways of organizing expert work in collective settings

Journal of Management and Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Koivunen, Niina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Action nets; Collective expertise; Communities of practice; Ethnography; Knowledge management; Scandinavia; Ways of organizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953033037     PISSN: 18333672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/jmo.837.15.2.258     Document Type: Article

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