Factors affecting employee knowledge acquisition and application capabilities

Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-152

  Kim, Soonhee ^a   Lee, Hyangsoo ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; Human resource management; Knowledge management; Private sector organizations; Public sector organizations; South Korea

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052731913     PISSN: 17574323     EISSN: 17574331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17574321011078184     Document Type: Article

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