Governing Knowledge Creation: A Problem-Finding and Problem-Solving Perspective

Knowledge Governance: Processes and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Heiman, Bruce ^a   Nickerson, Jackson ^b   Zenger, Todd ^b  

^a College of Business ^*  (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge governance; Problem finding; Problem solving; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235926.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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