Democratising organisational knowledge: The potential of the corporate wiki

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hasan, Helen ^a   Pfaff, Charmaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity Theory; Democratisation of knowledge; Knowledge worker; Wiki

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY; DEMOCRATISATION OF KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; NETWORK-CENTRIC; ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANISATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; POWER SHIFT; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; WIKI; WORK-RELATED;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870958951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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