Extending march's exploration and exploitation: Managing knowledge in turbulent environments

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bray, David A ^a   Prietula, Michael J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Environmental turbulence; Exploitation; Exploration; Flow; Knowledge management strategy; Knowledge based theory of the firm; Topdown; Turnover

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; TURBULENCE;

BOTTOM UP; ENVIRONMENTAL TURBULENCES; EXPLOITATION; FLOW; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY; KNOWLEDGE-BASED THEORY OF THE FIRMS; TOPDOWN; TURNOVER;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85088749767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.962535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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