Chester Barnard's “executive” and the knowledgebased firm

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 980-991

  Gehani, R Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Leadership; Resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986077104     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210452845     Document Type: Article

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