What one feels and what one knows: The influence of emotions on attitudes and intentions towards knowledge sharing

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 148-158

  van den Hooff, Bart ^a   Schouten, Alexander P ^a   Simonovski, Stojan ^b  

^a VU University   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Emotions; Intentions; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857551374     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673271211198990     Document Type: Article

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