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Sharing Knowledge in Virtual Communities

Sharing Knowledge in Virtual Communities

Iris Reychav, Jacob Weisberg
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781599048857|ISBN10: 159904885X|EISBN13: 9781599048864
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch190
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Reychav, Iris, and Jacob Weisberg. "Sharing Knowledge in Virtual Communities." Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, edited by Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 1446-1453. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch190

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Reychav, I. & Weisberg, J. (2008). Sharing Knowledge in Virtual Communities. In G. Putnik & M. Cruz-Cunha (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations (pp. 1446-1453). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch190

Chicago

Reychav, Iris, and Jacob Weisberg. "Sharing Knowledge in Virtual Communities." In Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, edited by Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, 1446-1453. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch190

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Abstract

The ongoing expansion of organizations’ international activities has led to a search for solutions to assist in the creation and transfer of knowledge among them, in an attempt to increase their profits (Laurie, 2002). Knowledge sharing solutions describe three frameworks where knowledge sharing occurs: virtual communities, knowledge communities, and virtual knowledge communities.

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