Trust as an antecedent to knowledge sharing in virtual communities of practice

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-212

  Usoro, Abel ^a   Sharratt, Mark W ^b   Tsui, Eric ^c   Shekhar, Sandhya ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b T Mobile UK   (United Kingdom)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; On line communities; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348858627     PISSN: 14778238     EISSN: 14778246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500143     Document Type: Article

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