Searching Usenet for virtual communities of practice: Using mixed methods to identify the constructs of Wenger's theory

Information Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Murillo, Enrique ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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