Knowledge management adoption and assessment for SMEs by a novel MCDM approach

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 270-291

  Hung, Ying Hsun ^a,b   Chou, Seng Cho T ^a   Tzeng, Gwo Hshiung ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Hwa Shia Institute of Technology   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Knowledge Management (KM); Knowledge management adoption; Knowledge management assessment; Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM); Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

Indexed keywords

BANKING INDUSTRY; IN-CONTROL; INDUSTRY SECTORS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT GAPS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING (MCDM); SERVICE INDUSTRIES; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RATING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79953764491     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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