Lessons learned as organizational project memories

Building Organizational Memories: Will You Know What You Knew?

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 97-114

  Abril, Raul M ^a   Müller, Ralf ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 80051896508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-540-5.ch008     Document Type: Chapter

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