Who will you ask? An empirical study of interpersonal task information seeking

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1666-1677

  Xu, Yunjie ^a   Tan, Cheng Yian ^a   Yang, Li ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SEEKING; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 33749403546     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20339     Document Type: Article

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