Understanding the influence of social media in the workplace: An integration of media synchronicity and social capital theories

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3938-3947

  Cao, Xiongfei ^a,b   Guo, Xitong ^c   Vogel, Douglas R ^b   Liu, Hefu ^d   Gu, Jibao ^d  

^a University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d School of Management University of Science and Technology of China He Fei   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE TESTING;

CHINESE SOFTWARES; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; MEDIA SYNCHRONICITIES; RESEARCH MODELS; WORK PERFORMANCE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84863231859     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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