Content management in the workplace: Community, context, and a new way to organize writing

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 367-395

  McCarthy, Jacob E ^a   Grabill, Jeffrey ^b   Hart Davidson, William ^b   McLeod, Michael ^b  

^a UNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

content management; genre ecology; technology adoption; workplace study

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053153892     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651911410943     Document Type: Article

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