Searching for answers - Knowledge exchange through social media in organizations

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3908-3917

  Seebach, Christoph ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ENTERPRISE MICROBLOGGING; INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857985621     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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