Performance measuring in communities of practice: A method and case study

2010 4th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science - Proceedings, RCIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 607-618

  Van Der Meijden, Mark ^a   Jansen, Slinger ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Interventions; KM performance; Knowledge management; Knowledge network analysis; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; INTERVENTIONS; KM PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 77957299734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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