Trust and risk as critical factors of knowledge sharing in virtual communities of practice: A conceptual view

Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 443-452

  Majewski, Grzegorz ^a   Usoro, Abel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Prisoner's dilemma; Risk; Trust; Virtual communities of practice

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL VIEWS; CRITICAL FACTORS; DAMPENING EFFECTS; FACE TO FACE; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; OPTIMAL BALANCE; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; PRISONER'S DILEMMA; RISK FACTORS; RISK LEVELS; SHARING KNOWLEDGE; TIME-SCALES; TRUST; TRUST FACTOR; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; RISKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 84869206416     PISSN: 20488963     EISSN: 20488971     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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