The impact of communal knowledge repositories and people-based knowledge management on perceptions of team effectiveness

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-54

  Child, Jeffrey T ^b   Shumate, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intranet repository use; Knowledge management; Perceived team effectiveness; Remote work; Transactive memory theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449142090     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318907301987     Document Type: Article

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