Expertise and mistakes, to share or not to share? A cross cultural study of in-group /out-group relationships on knowledge sharing

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ribiere, Vincent M ^a   Zhang, Qiping ^b  

^a BANGKOK UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL VALUE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL ORGANIZATION; GROUP MEMBERS; KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; NATIONAL CULTURES; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; THAILAND;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 77951732048     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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