Fostering knowledge exchange in online communities: A social capital building approach;Favoriser l'échange de connaissances dans les communautés en ligne: Une approche par le capital social

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Law, Sally Pui Man ^a   Chang, Man Kit ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Knowledge contribution; Knowledge exchange; Online community; Social capital

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTION; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; NETWORK TIE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SHARED LANGUAGE; SOCIAL CAPITALS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TECHNOLOGY-BASED;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MODEL STRUCTURES; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870973210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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