To Share or Not to Share: Assessing Knowledge Sharing, Interemployee Helping, and Their Antecedents Among Online Knowledge Workers

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 439-449

  Lin, Chieh Peng ^a   Joe, Sheng Wuu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b VANUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flow experience; Interemployee helping; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862592445     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1100-x     Document Type: Article

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