THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL CULTURE ON KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN GLOBAL VIRTUAL COLLABORATION: A PRACTICE LENS

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue 93595, 2010, Pages

  Wei, Kangning ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural issues; global virtual collaboration; Knowledge sharing; national culture

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES; EXPLORATORY CASE STUDIES; GLOBAL VIRTUAL COLLABORATION; IN-PHASE; KEY PROCESS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; NATIONAL CULTURES; ONLINE SURVEYS; VIRTUAL COLLABORATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84884625712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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