Impact of coherent versus multiple identities on knowledge integration

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 370-386

  Willem, Annick ^a   Scarbrough, Harry ^b   Buelens, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case studies; Knowledge integration; Multiple social identities; Organization theory; Organization wide social identity; Social identity

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; MULTIPLE SOCIAL IDENTITIES; ORGANIZATION THEORY; ORGANIZATION WIDE SOCIAL IDENTITY; SOCIAL IDENTITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 43449123362     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551507086259     Document Type: Article

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