Responding to the (almost) unknown: Social representations and corporate policies of social media

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kaganer, Evgeny ^a   Vaast, Emmanuelle ^b  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IT governance; Mindfulness; Organizational sensemaking; Policies; Social computing; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

IT GOVERNANCE; MINDFULNESS; SENSEMAKING; SOCIAL COMPUTING; WEB 2.0;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84870969555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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