Knowledge à la mode: The rise of knowledge management and its implications for views of knowledge production

Social Epistemology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-213

  Scarbrough, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85011146123     PISSN: 02691728     EISSN: 14645297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02691720110076530     Document Type: Note

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