Using “knowledge champions” to facilitate knowledge management

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-63

  Jones, Nory B ^a   Herschel, Richard T ^b   Moesel, Douglas D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Chief executives; Knowledge management; Open systems; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986048538     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270310463617     Document Type: Article

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