Revisiting the effect of social capital on knowledge sharing in work teams: A multilevel approach

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yu, Angela Yan ^a   Hao, Jin Xing ^b   Dong, Xiao Ying ^c   Khalifa, Mohamed ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Peking University   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG IN DUBAI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Multilevel; Social capital; Social network

Indexed keywords

EXPLICIT AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MULTILEVEL; MULTILEVEL APPROACH; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEAM MEMBERS; WORK TEAM;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870971519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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