Global social knowledge management - Understanding barriers for global workers utilizing social software

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 637-647

  Pirkkalainen, Henri ^a   Pawlowski, Jan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Barriers; Global collaboration; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Social software

Indexed keywords

BARRIERS; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION; GLOBAL COLLABORATION; INTERRELATED COMPONENTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT LITERATURE; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SOCIAL SOFTWARE;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84889083844     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.07.041     Document Type: Article

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