Who Knows Who Knows What in the Group? The Effects of Communication Network Centralities, Use of Digital Knowledge Repositories, and Work Remoteness on Organizational Members' Accuracy in Expertise Recognition

Communication Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 614-640

  Su, Chunke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

accuracy; communication network; expertise recognition; knowledge management; transactive memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866396305     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650211433825     Document Type: Article

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