Information sharing and trust during major incidents: Findings from the oil industry

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1916-1928

  Hassan Ibrahim, Nurain ^a   Allen, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disasters; information transfer; trust

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; COMMUNICATION FIELDS; CRITICAL INCIDENT TECHNIQUE; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; INFORMATION SHARING; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; OIL INDUSTRIES; OIL-RIGS; TRUST;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; DISASTERS; JOB ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866522783     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22676     Document Type: Article

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