The sustainability of corporate wikis: A time-series analysis of activity patterns

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Croitoru, Arie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering; Corporate; Edit activity patterns; Lifecycle; Sustainability; Time series; Wiki

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; CLUSTERING; CORPORATE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL ORGANIZATION; NOISY DATA; PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; SENSE OF COMMUNITY; SHORT PERIODS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TEMPORAL PATTERN; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; USER SURVEYS; USERS' PERCEPTION; WIKI;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE; SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIME SERIES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84860598476     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1877725.1877731     Document Type: Article

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