Managing lessons learned and tacit knowledge in new product development

Research Technology Management

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 39-51

  Goffin, Keith ^a,b   Koners, Ursula ^d   Baxter, David ^a   Van Der Hoven, Chris ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c BradfordUniversity   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Lessons learned; Organizational learning; Post project reviews; Project to project learning; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS;

LESSONS LEARNED; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; POST-PROJECT REVIEW; PROJECT LEARNING; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 80052454375     PISSN: 08956308     EISSN: 19300166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08956308.2010.11657639     Document Type: Article

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