Harnessing Unstructured Knowledge: The Business Value Of Social Bookmarking At Mitre

Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 51-76

  Parise, Salvatore ^a   Guinan, Patricia J ^a   Iyer, Bala ^a   Cuomo, Donna L ^b   Donaldson, Bill ^b  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

information systems; information technology; IT adoption; knowledge management; social collaboration tools; social tagging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973518791     PISSN: 15228053     EISSN: 23336897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228053.2009.10856159     Document Type: Article

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