A critical review of knowledge management literature: Introducing a practice-based approach on knowledge sharing

Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 869-876

  Timonen, Hanna ^a   Jalonen, Meri ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Literature review; Practice based approaches

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL REVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT LITERATURE; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LITERATURE REVIEWS; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS; ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES; PRACTICE-BASED APPROACHES; WORK PRACTICES;

RESEARCH;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84869208975     PISSN: 20488963     EISSN: 20488971     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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