The transfer of knowledge and the retention of expertise: The continuing need for global assignments

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 125-137

  Bender, Silke ^a   Fish, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expatriates; Global marketing; Human resource management; Information technology; Knowledge management; Knowledge transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986081993     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270010372251     Document Type: Review

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