The Efficacy of Knowledge Sharing: Centralized Vs. Self-Organizing Online Communities

This study investigates the impact of an online communityâ s control structure on the knowledge sharing process in that community. Using a framework comprised of legitimate peripheral participation theory and the weak-ties phenomenon, the study focuses on a comparative analysis of self-organizing o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godara, Jaideep
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42681
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05162007-173100/