Enterprise blogging in a global context : Comparing Chinese and American practices

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 35-44

  Liao, Qinying ^a   Pan, Shimei ^b   Lai, Jennifer C ^b   Yang, Chang ^a  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogging; China; Cross cultural study; Enterprise social software; Knowledge workers; Motivation; Usa

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

BLOGGING; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE;

BLOGS;

EID: 79955129062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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