Information sharing and timing: Findings from two finnish organizations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3507, Issue , 2005, Pages 32-46

  Widén Wulff, Gunilla ^a   Davenport, Elisabeth ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Information seeking and behaviour

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LIBRARIES; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; INFORMATION SEEKING AND BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SHARING; ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 24944590987     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11495222_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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