An exploratory examination of knowledge sharing behaviors: Voluntary vs. solicited

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Song, Seokwoo ^a   Teng, James T C ^b  

^a WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; TASK STRUCTURE;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER NETWORKS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 51449115514     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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