Factors affecting shapers of organizational wikis

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 543-554

  Yates, Dave ^a   Wagner, Christian ^b   Majchrzak, Ann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WEB 2.0;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 76649135800     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21266     Document Type: Article

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