Bridging communities of practice with information technology in pursuit of global knowledge sharing

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-88

  Pan, Shan L ^a   Leidner, Dorothy E ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Global knowledge sharing; IT enabled knowledge management systems; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867973293     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8687(02)00023-9     Document Type: Article

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