Information technology and organizational learning: An investigation of exploitation and exploration processes

Association for Information Systems - 26th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2005: Forever New Frontiers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 459-470

  Kane, Gerald C ^a   Alavi, Maryam ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Exploitation; Exploration; Organizational learning; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SUPPORT; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; EXPLOITATION; EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATIONS; EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION; KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; SIMULATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84869830026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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