SEEKING KNOWLEDGE IN ELECTRONIC KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORIES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 123-134

  Kankanhalli, Atreyi ^a   Tan, Bernard C Y ^a   Wei, Kwok Kee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Electronic knowledge repositories; knowledge seeking; organizational characteristics; task characteristics; technology characteristics; usage

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

CRITICAL RESOURCES; ELECTRONIC KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORIES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE SEEKING; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES; TASK CHARACTERISTICS; TECHNOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS; USAGE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85082624702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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