Psychological contracts and knowledge exchange in virtual teams;Contrats psychologiques et échange de connaissances au sein des équipes virtuelles

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chang, Klarissa Ting Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Psychological contracts; Social networks; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

FIELD STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS; RELATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL TIES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VIRTUAL TEAM;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870956720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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