Work role similarity and work familiarity between members: A tripartite view of social identity towards knowledge contribution in organizations

PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chang, Klarissa ^a   Chang, Aeron ^a   Sha, Xiqing ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Knowledge contribution; Organizations; Similarity; Social identity

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; FAMILIARITY; FIELD DATA; KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTION; KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE ORGANIZATIONS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SIMILARITY; SOCIAL IDENTITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPETITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84855679442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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