Organisational forms and knowledge management: one size fits all?

International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 18-37

  Franken, Arnoud ^a   Braganza, Ashley ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

knowledge creation; knowledge management; organisational forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899800302     PISSN: 17438268     EISSN: 17438276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijkms.2006.008843     Document Type: Article

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