Interactions between organizational culture, trustworthiness, and mechanisms for inter-project knowledge sharing

Project Management Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 48-65

  Wiewiora, Anna ^a   Murphy, Glen ^a   Trigunarsyah, Bambang ^b   Brown, Kerry ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

case study; inter project knowledge sharing; organizational culture; trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898762800     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.21407     Document Type: Article

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