Overcoming organisational resistance to using Wiki Technology for knowledge management

PACIS 2006 - 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: ICT and Innovation Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 926-935

  Pfaff, Charmaine C ^a   Hasan, Helen ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Organisation learning; Resistance; Social software; Wiki technology

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ORGANISATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; ORGANISATION LEARNING; PUBLIC DOMAINS; SOCIAL ELEMENTS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; WIKI TECHNOLOGY;

COPYRIGHTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY;

INNOVATION;

EID: 80053484590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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