The impact of team task and job engagement on the transfer of tacit knowledge in e-business virtual teams

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 333-340

  Cao, Weilin ^a   Xu, Li ^a   Liang, Liang ^a   Chaudhry, Sohail S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Job engagement; Knowledge transfer; Tacit knowledge; Team task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868642736     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: 15737667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-012-0129-6     Document Type: Article

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