Reflections on knowledge and knowledgeintensive firms

Human Relations

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 955-963

  Donaldson, Lex ^a  

^a Australian Graduate School of Management   (Australia)

Author keywords

knowledge; magification; organizational theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993661330     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726701547008     Document Type: Article

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