The ba of blogs: Enabling conditions for knowledge conversion in blog communities

VINE

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-23

  Martin Niemi, Fa ^a   Greatbanks, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Communities; Knowledge management; Social networks

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; KNOWLEDGE CONVERSION; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; SENSE OF COMMUNITY; SHARE KNOWLEDGE; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

ECOSYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

BLOGS;

EID: 76449089960     PISSN: 03055728     EISSN: 14741032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03055721011024892     Document Type: Article

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