Business process improvement through e-collaboration: Knowledge sharing through the use of virtual groups

Business Process Improvement Through E-Collaboration: Knowledge Sharing Through the Use of Virtual Groups

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-283

  Kock, Ned ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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