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Special Section Article: The dynamics of KM: From strategy to knowledge workers’ performance

Task characteristics and knowledge management performance: model development and scale construction

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Pages 259-276 | Received 05 Sep 2019, Accepted 17 Jun 2020, Published online: 07 Jul 2020

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