An activity theory approach for studying the situatedness of knowledge sharing

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 1483-1492

  Boer, N I ^a   Van Baalen, P J ^a   Kumar, K ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric breakdown; Explosions; Guidelines; Information analysis; Information management; Knowledge management; Management information systems; Mediation; Speech processing; Writing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; EXPLOSIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TECHNICAL WRITING;

ACTIVITY SYSTEMS; DIVISION OF LABOR; GUIDELINES; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MEDIATION; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING; SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS; UNIT OF ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84948691785     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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