Social capital and knowledge integration in digitally enabled teams

Information Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 314-334

  Robert Jr , Lionel P ^a   Dennis, Alan R ^b   Ahuja, Manju K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer mediated communication; Information sharing; Knowledge sharing; Lab experiments; Network analysis; Social capital; Social network analysis; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COLLABORATION; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION SHARING; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SOCIAL CAPITALS; VIRTUAL TEAM;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 61349174715     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0177     Document Type: Article

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