Social Media in Organizations: Leveraging Personal and Collective Knowledge Processes

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-93

  Razmerita, Liana ^a   Kirchner, Kathrin ^b   Nabeth, Thierry ^c  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c European Chair on Intellectual Capital and RITM University Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

Enterprise 2.0; knowledge management; personal knowledge management; social media; social networks; social software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892463177     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10919392.2014.866504     Document Type: Article

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