What makes corporate wikis work? wiki affordances and their suitability for corporate knowledge work

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7286 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 174-190

  Yeo, M Lisa ^a   Arazy, Ofer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordances; Knowledge Management; Wiki

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; CORPORATE KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERNET ENVIRONMENT; KNOWLEDGE WORK; USERS' PERCEPTION; WIKI; WORK PRACTICES;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84861217778     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29863-9_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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