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What drives employees to share their tacit knowledge in practice?

Yong Sauk HauSchool of Business, Yeungnam UniversityGyeongsanRepublic of KoreaView further author information

Byoungsoo KimDepartment of Business Administration, College of Social Sciences, Seoul Women’s UniversityNowon-GuRepublic of KoreaCorrespondence[email protected]

Heeseok LeeBusiness School, KAISTSeoulRepublic of Korea

Pages 295-308 | Published online: 19 Dec 2017

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