Knowledge sharing, innovation and firm performance

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8899-8908

  Wang, Zhining ^a   Wang, Nianxin ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Innovation; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

EXPLICIT AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; FIRM PERFORMANCE; HIGH TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION SPEED; JIANGSU PROVINCE; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; LITERATURE REVIEWS; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH MODELS; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; WEBSITES;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84862818900     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.017     Document Type: Article

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