Exploring stakeholders' expectations of the benefits and barriers of e-government knowledge sharing

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 548-567

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Dawes, Sharon S ^b   Sarkis, Joseph ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Government; Knowledge sharing; Stakeholder analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444493825     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390510624007     Document Type: Review

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