Why is it that a knowledge management initiative works or fails

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Carlsson, Sven A ^a   Kalling, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evaluation study; Knowledge management; Knowledge management system; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE CONTROL; COST ITEMS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; EVALUATION STUDY; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; PROFIT MARGIN; SHARING KNOWLEDGE; STATISTICAL FINDING;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870637527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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