Communicative Action in Intellectual Capital Creation: An Empirical Test

Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 357-365

  O'Donnell, David ^a   Cleary, Peter ^b   Bontis, Nick ^c   O'Regan, Philip ^d   Kennedy, Tom ^d  

^a Intellectual Capital Research Institute of Ireland   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Communicative Action; Critical Appraisal Norms (CAN); Habermas; Intellectual Capital Creation; Knowledge Creation; Knowledge Sharing; Management Leadership

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIVE ACTIONS; CRITICAL APPRAISAL NORMS (CAN); HABERMAS; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84869236218     PISSN: 20488963     EISSN: 20488971     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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