The communicative view on organizational memory: Power and ambiguity in knowledge creation systems

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 1996, Pages 147-155

  Tuomi, I ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; INNOVATION PROCESS; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL INTERACTIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY; POWER STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC AMBIGUITIES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85011864364     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.1996.493186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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