The impact of virtual technologies on organizational knowledge creation: An empirical study

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Vaccaro, A ^a,b   Veloso, F ^a,b   Brusoni, S ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 51449096042     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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