Discontinuity in Organizations: Developing a Knowledge-Based Organizational Performance Model for Discontinuous Membership

International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-28

  Ibrahim, Rahinah ^a   Nissen, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

computational organization theory; discontinuous membership; information processing; knowledge dynamics; knowledge flows; knowledge management; organization theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001720385     PISSN: 15480666     EISSN: 15480658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jkm.2007010102     Document Type: Article

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