Investigating ownership and the willingness to share information online

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2367-2382

  Raban, Daphne R ^a   Rafaeli, Sheizaf ^a  

^a the Information Society   (Israel)

Author keywords

Information sharing; Ownership; Willingness to share

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SHARING; OWNERSHIP; SYSTEM INDUCED OWNERSHIP; WILLINGNESS TO SHARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947595396     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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