Project team's internal and external social networks and their influence on project performance

Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 957-963

  Liang, Chen ^a   Wiewiora, Anna ^b   Gable, Guy ^b   Trigunarsyah, Bambang ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

External social network; Internal social network; Knowledge transfer; Performance; Project team

Indexed keywords

EGOCENTRIC NETWORKS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXTERNAL SOURCES; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PERFORMANCE; PROJECT ENVIRONMENT; PROJECT LEARNING; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; PROJECT TEAM; PROJECT-BASED; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEAM MEMBERS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84871041565     PISSN: 20488963     EISSN: 20488971     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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