KNOWLEDGE ADOPTION IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 96-109

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Watts, Stephanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

COPs; disconfirming information; dual process theories of information processing; focused search; genre conformity; information consistency; Knowledge adoption; online communities of practice

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; DISCONFIRMING INFORMATION; DUAL-PROCESS THEORIES; DUAL-PROCESS THEORY OF INFORMATION PROCESSING; FOCUSED SEARCH; GENRE CONFORMITY; INFORMATION CONSISTENCY; KNOWLEDGE ADOPTIONS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85138746059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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