Continuance in expertise-sharing networks: A social perspective

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-101

  Tiwana, Amrit ^a   Bush, Ashley A ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expertise networks; Information systems continuance; Knowledge management (KM); Knowledge networks; Peer to peer; Personalization Siemens ShareNet; Reputation; Sunk cost

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPERTISE NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONTINUANCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (KM); KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; SUNK COST;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 13844313890     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2004.839956     Document Type: Article

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