Understanding context: Its emergence, transformation and role in tacit knowledge sharing

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-137

  Augier, Mie ^a   Shariq, Syed Z ^a   Thanning Vendel⊘, Morten ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dissemination; Knowledge discovery; Organizational processes; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986131443     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270110393176     Document Type: Article

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