Supporting technologies and organizational practices for the transfer of knowledge in virtual environments

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 407-423

  Griffith, Terri L ^a   Sawyer, John E ^b  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Knowledge management; Knowledge transfer; Video on demand; Virtual teams; Virtual work

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746108564     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-006-9048-4     Document Type: Article

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