'Soft' enablers of knowledge management in Malaysian companies - A qualitative study

ACIS 2006 Proceedings - 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gan, Gerald Goh Guan ^a   Ryan, Charmaine ^a   Gururajan, Raj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case study research; Knowledge management; Qualitative techniques

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY RESEARCH; FORMALISATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; MUTUAL TRUST; QUALITATIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE TECHNIQUES; T-SHAPED SKILLS;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84869118375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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