The relationship between incentives, explicit and tacit knowledge contribution in online engineering education project

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1341-1346

  Zhang, Xi ^a   De Pablos, Patricia Ordonez ^b   Zhang, Yixiang ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Science   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Explicit knowledge contribution; Incentives; Online engineering education project; Tacit knowledge contribution

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT EFFECTS; ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXPLICIT AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; INCENTIVE MECHANISM; INCENTIVES; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTIONS; ONLINE ENGINEERING EDUCATION; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84873630528     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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