Internet-based knowledge acquisition: Task complexity and performance

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-65

  Lankton, Nancy K ^a   Speier, Cheri ^b   Wilson, E Vance ^c  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information seeking; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge retrieval; Perceived information overload; Task performance

Indexed keywords

DECISIONAL GUIDANCE; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET BASED; INTERNET TOOLS; KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL; LOW-COMPLEXITY; PULL SYSTEMS; TASK COMPLEXITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEB DIRECTORIES;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84859211622     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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