Motivation to share knowledge using wiki technology and the moderating effect of role perceptions

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2362-2378

  Arazy, Ofer ^a,b   Gellatly, Ian ^b   Brainin, Esther ^c   Nov, Oded ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

^d POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION;

AUTONOMOUS MOTIVATIONS; INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE COLLABORATION; MODERATING EFFECT; MULTINATIONAL FIRMS; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING; SELF-DETERMINATION THEORIES; WIKI TECHNOLOGIES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ATTENTION; DRAWING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84987616080     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23579     Document Type: Article

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