Supporting knowledge sharing visibility: A qualitative analysis

PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Xi ^a   Vogel, Doug ^b   Chen, Zhenjiao ^c   Tian, Wen ^a   Guo, Chuanjie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c City University of Hong Kong Joint Advanced Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Case study; IT functions; Knowledge management (KM); Knowledge management systems (KMS); Knowledge sharing visibility; Social loafing

Indexed keywords

CHINESE COMPANIES; COMMUNICATION TOOLS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; INSTANT MESSENGERS; INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (KMS); KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SOCIAL LOAFING; SUPPORTING KNOWLEDGE; WEB 2.0; WEBLOGS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; VISIBILITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84862917821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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