Mechanisms to motivate knowledge sharing: Integrating the reward systems and social network perspectives

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 212-235

  Lin, Sheng Wei ^a   Lo, Louis Yi Shih ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Belief of reciprocal obligation; Calculative based mechanism; Knowledge sharing; Relational based mechanism; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928331466     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JKM-05-2014-0209     Document Type: Article

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