Committed to share: Commitment and CMC use as antecedents of knowledge sharing

Knowledge and Process Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-24

  van den Hooff, Bart ^a   de Leeuw van Weenen, Femke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84865618686     PISSN: 10924604     EISSN: 10991441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/kpm.187     Document Type: Article

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