An elusive antecedent of superior firm performance: The knowledge management factor

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 271-283

  Holsapple, Clyde W ^a   Wu, Jiming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

COMPUSTAT; Financial performance; Firm performance; KM; Knowledge management; Resource based theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUSTAT; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; FIRM PERFORMANCE; KM; RESOURCE-BASED THEORY;

FINANCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 80455164543     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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