Role of Knowledge Management Initiatives in Organizational Innovativeness: Empirical Findings from the IT Industry

This paper addresses the relationship between knowledge management initiatives in Indian IT organizations and their innovativeness at the organization level by using the survey research methodology. Knowledge management initiatives were measured in the context of cultural, structural, and technologi...

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