Wikis at work: Success factors and challenges for sustainability of enterprise wikis

Proceedings of WikiSym 2010 - The 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Grudin, Jonathan ^a   Poole, Erika Shehan ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

adoption; organization behavior; Wiki

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS; SUCCESS FACTORS; WIKI;

EID: 77955838365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1832772.1832780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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