Knowledge sharing and sociality: On the linguistic embeddedness of knowledge exchange in international subsidiaries

Knowledge Ecology in Global Business: Managing Intellectual Capital

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-14

  Lauring, Jakob ^a   Bjerregaard, Toke ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 80055029523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-270-1.ch001     Document Type: Chapter

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