Measuring knowledge assets – implications of the knowledge economy for performance measurement

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-27

  Marr, Bernard ^a   Spender, J C ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assets valuation; Intellectual capital; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992996399     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040410524702     Document Type: Article

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