Is reward always effective as incentive in electronic knowledge repositories? a game-theoretical perspective

Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1671-1679

  Zhang, Xi ^a   Vogel, Doug ^b   Chen, Zhenjiao ^a   Yuan, Minghui ^b  

^a Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electronic knowledge repositories; Game theory; Knowledge sharing; Social exchange theory

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORIES; FREE-RIDING; HIGH QUALITY; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SHARE KNOWLEDGE; SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84870199140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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