Knowledge Governance: What have We Learned? and Where are We Heading?

Knowledge Governance: Processes and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Foss, Nicolai J ^a,b,c   Michailova, Snejina ^d  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^b CBS   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Distinctiveness; Knowledge governance; Open issues; Processing knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235926.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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