Market extension and knowledge management strategies of knowledge-intensive business services

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 305-314

  Bettiol, Marco ^a   Di Maria, Eleonora ^a   Grandinetti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

knowledge codification; knowledge production; knowledge intensive business services; market extension; network; personalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855225836     PISSN: 14778238     EISSN: 14778246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2011.35     Document Type: Article

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