The efficacy of knowledge sharing in centralized and self-organizing online communities: Weblog networks vs. discussion forums

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Godara, Jaideep ^a   Isenhour, Philip ^b   Kavanaugh, Andrea ^b  

^a SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICES; CONTROL STRUCTURES; DISCUSSION FORUMS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; REAL TIME; SELF-ORGANIZING;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 63349111975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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