Information technology, social capital, and the generation of intellectual capital

Strategies for Information Technology and Intellectual Capital: Challenges and Opportunities

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 126-147

  Kianto, Aino ^a   Kosonen, Miia ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-081-3.ch009     Document Type: Chapter

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