Towards tacit knowledge sharing over social web tools

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 379-397

  Panahi, Sirous ^a   Watson, Jason ^a   Partridge, Helen ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information technology; Knowledge sharing; Social web; Tacit knowledge; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878892517     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JKM-11-2012-0364     Document Type: Review

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