Design principles for a social question and answers site: Enabling user-to-user support in organizations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8463 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 54-68

  Ortbach, Kevin ^a   Gaß, Oliver ^b   Köffer, Sebastian ^a   Schacht, Silvia ^b   Walter, Nicolai ^a   Maedche, Alexander ^b   Niehaves, Bjoern ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

BYOD; IT consumerization; social questions and answer sites; user to user support

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BYOD; DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS; ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT; IT CONSUMERIZATION; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWER SITES; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84901346560     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06701-8_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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