The use of social media in gathering and sharing competitive intelligence

Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-8

  Vuori, Vilma ^a   Väisänen, Jaani ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competitive intelligence; Identifying information sources; Information gathering; Information sharing; Knowledge sharing; Social media

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION GATHERING; INFORMATION SHARING; INFORMATION SOURCES; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

COMPETITION; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84873531626     PISSN: 16830040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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