Knowledge sharing in immersive virtual communities of practice

VINE

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-62

  Majewski, Grzegorz ^a   Usoro, Abel ^a   Khan, Imran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communities; Knowledge management; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551678540     PISSN: 03055728     EISSN: 14741032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03055721111115548     Document Type: Article

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