Sharing knowledge in technology deficient environments: Individual workarounds amid corporate restrictions

ECIS 2013 - Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Davison, Robert M ^a   Ou, Carol X J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

China; Corporate IT Policy; Guanxi; Hotels; Knowledge Sharing; Socio Technical Theory

Indexed keywords

HOTELS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; GUANXI; IT POLICIES; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SOCIO-TECHNICAL THEORIES;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84905842281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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