Understanding seeking from electronic knowledge repositories: An empirical study

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1156-1166

  Kankanhalli, Atreyi ^a   Tan, Bernard C Y ^a   Wei, Kwok Kee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTS; CRITICAL RESOURCES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 27644509982     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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