It's not what you know, it's who you know: Work in the information age

First Monday

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2000, Pages

  Nardi, Bonnie A ^a   Whittaker, Steve ^b   Schwarz, Heinrich ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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