The influence of attachment styles on knowledge sharing in social media environments

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

Volumn 7411 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 231-242

  Ma, Will Wai Kit ^a   Sun, Kirindi ^b   Ma, Jamie ^c  

^a HONG KONG SHUE YAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION   (Hong Kong)

^c Renaissance College Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Attachment styles; online knowledge sharing; perceived online attachment motivation; perceived online relationship commitment

Indexed keywords

ADULT LEARNERS; ATTACHMENT STYLE; INFORMAL LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MODEL FRAMEWORK; PERCEIVED ONLINE RELATIONSHIP COMMITMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIDEO MEDIA;

MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84864991735     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32018-7_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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