Poliarchic Governance and the Growth of Knowledge

Knowledge Governance: Processes and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Grandori, Anna ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constitutional contracts; Knowledge governance; Organizational democracy; Poliarchies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235926.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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