Cultural Stretch: Knowledge Transfer and Disconcerting Resistance to Absorption and Application

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Knowledge Management

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 67-80

  Fink, Gerhard ^a   Holden, Nigel ^a  

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