Employee creativity formation: The roles of knowledge seeking, knowledge contributing and flow experience in Web 2.0 virtual communities

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1923-1932

  Yan, Yalan ^a   Davison, Robert M ^b   Mo, Chunyan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Knowledge seeking Knowledge contributing Flow Creativity Web 2.0 virtual communities

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYEE CREATIVITIES; FLOW EXPERIENCE; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; RESEARCH MODELS; SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY; THEORY AND PRACTICE; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84876866192     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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