Controls of knowledge production, sharing and use in bureaucratized professional service firms

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 489-508

  Brivot, Marion ^a  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

Author keywords

bureaucratization; knowledge management (KM) systems; organizational archetypes; organizational controls; professional service firms (PSFs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955119988     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611400284     Document Type: Article

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