Motivating employees to share their failures in knowledge management systems: Anonymity and culture

Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 93-117

  Huerta, Esperanza ^a   Salter, Stephen B ^a   Lewis, Philip A ^b   Yeow, Pamela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural research; Information sharing; Knowledge management systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870730498     PISSN: 08887985     EISSN: 15587959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/isys-50214     Document Type: Article

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