Organisational culture's influence on tacit knowledge-sharing behaviour

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 462-477

  Suppiah, Visvalingam ^a   Sandhu, Manjit Singh ^b  

^a Paradigm Systems   (Malaysia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Malaysia; Organisational culture; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955928747     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673271111137439     Document Type: Article

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