Knowledge sharing in wiki communities: An empirical study

Online Information Review

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 799-820

  Wang, Wei Tsong ^a   Wei, Zu Hao ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Virtual community; Virtual community outcome; Web; Wiki application; Wikis

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE AUTHORING; COMMUNITY IDENTIFICATION; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; COMMUNITY PROMOTION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MEDIATING EFFECT; RESEARCH RESULTS; SHARE KNOWLEDGE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; SURVEY DATA; THEORETICAL MODELS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WEB; WIKIS;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEBSITES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80053557353     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521111176516     Document Type: Article

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