A conceptual model for virtual organizational learning

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 155-178

  Lin, Fu Ren ^a   Lin, Sheng Cheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cyber community; Knowledge map; Organizational learning; Organizational memory; Social network; Transactive memory; Virtual organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038970337     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327744JOCE1103_02     Document Type: Article

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