The effect of organisational culture on attitude and intention toward knowledge sharing: A study of Iranian SMEs

International Journal of Management and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 286-301

  Pool, Javad Khazaei ^a   Asadi, Ali ^a   Forte, Peter ^b   Ansari, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b France Business School ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Denison model; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Organisational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904752778     PISSN: 14624621     EISSN: 17415187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2014.063572     Document Type: Article

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