Organizational social computing and employee job performance: The knowledge access route

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ali Hassan, Hossam ^a   Nevo, Dorit ^b   Kim, Henry ^b   Perelgut, Stephen ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; JOB PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL RELATIONS;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

PERSONNEL;

EID: 79952940516     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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