Social software: Agents for change or platforms for social reproduction? A case study on Enterprise Microblogging

ACIS 2010 Proceedings - 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Riemer, Kai ^a   Richter, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterprise 2.0; Enterprise microblogging; Social software; Team organisation

Indexed keywords

BLOGOSPHERES; DECISION PROCESS; MICROBLOGGING; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE COMPANY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TEAM ORGANISATION; WORK STRUCTURES;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870387826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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