Agency in voluntary organizational forgetting

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 317-322

  de Holan, Pablo Martin ^a,b  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b The INCAE Business School   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

knowledge management; organizational unlearning; voluntary organizational forgetting

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051813346     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: 15526542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1056492611408265     Document Type: Review

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