Enhancing employee tendencies to share knowledge-Case studies of nine companies in Taiwan

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 326-338

  Hsu, I Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Case study; Effectiveness; Employee knowledge sharing; Motivation; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MOTIVATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CASE STUDY; EFFECTIVENESS; EMPLOYEE KNOWLEDGE SHARING; TAIWAN;

PERSONNEL;

EID: 33747197401     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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