Knowledge transfer in virtual information systems development teams: An empirical examination of key enablers

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Sarker, Sa ^a   Sarker, Su ^a   Nicholson, D ^a   Joshi, K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; KNOWLEDGE WORK; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE; VIRTUAL INFORMATION; VIRTUAL TEAM; VIRTUAL TEAMWORK;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84969498444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2003.1174272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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