Building a Knowledge-Sharing Culture in Construction Project Teams

Knowledge Management in Construction

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 195-212

  Fong, Patrick S W ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Employees; Goals; Project; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889364857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470759554.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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