Motivation and barriers to participation in virtual knowledge-sharing communities of practice

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-77

  Ardichvili, Alexander ^a   Page, Vaughn ^a   Wentling, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Knowledge management; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986170723     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270310463626     Document Type: Article

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