Identifying knowledge management problems using a process-based method (a case study of process 137)

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 263-291

  Ranjbarfard, Mina ^a   Aghdasi, Mohammad ^a   Albadvi, Amir ^a   Hassanzadeh, Mohammad ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Business process improvement; Iran; Knowledge management; Knowledge management processes; Knowledge intensive business process; Process management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878234509     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637151311308312     Document Type: Article

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