Towards need-driven knowledge sharing in distributed teams

Proceedings of I-KNOW 2009 - 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies and Proceedings of I-SEMANTICS 2009 - 5th International Conference on Semantic Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 128-139

  Happel, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a FZI RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed work; Information need; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; DISTRIBUTED WORK; INFORMATION NEED; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING;

SEMANTICS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78650867281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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