Knowledge sharing in an online community of volunteers

European Management Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 213-227

  Erden, Zeynep ^a   Von Krogh, Georg ^a   Kim, Seonwoo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

knowledge sharing; online community; theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872955847     PISSN: 17404754     EISSN: 17404762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-4762.2012.01039.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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