Social Technologies, Informal Knowledge Practices, and the Enterprise

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 110-137

  Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Sawyer, Steve ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

informal knowledge sharing; knowledge practices; social media; social technologies; sociomateriality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874584444     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10919392.2013.748613     Document Type: Article

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