Knowledge integration processes and dynamics within the context of cross-functional projects

Management of Knowledge in Project Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 19-39

  Newell, Sue ^a   Huang, Jimmy ^b  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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