The impact of empowering leadership for KMS adoption

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1120-1140

  Kuo, Ren Zong ^a   Lai, Ming Fong ^b   Lee, Gwo Guang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Empowering leadership; Knowledge management; Management styles; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961145369     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111151172     Document Type: Article

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