Voluntary turnover: Knowledge management – friend or foe?

Journal of Intellectual Capital

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 303-322

  Stovel, Meaghan ^a   Bontis, Nick ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Employee development; Financial services; Knowledge management; Staff turnover; Training; Workforce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986051111     PISSN: 14691930     EISSN: 1758468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14691930210435633     Document Type: Review

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