Critical success factors for effective knowledge sharing in Chinese joint ventures

ACIS 2008 Proceedings - 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1089-1098

  Xiong, Song ^a   Deng, Hepu ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese joint ventures; Critical success factors; Empirical study; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES; JOINT VENTURES; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MULTICULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84869118373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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