Social capital and information technology
By: edited by Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Congresses; Social capital (Sociology); Organizational learning; Knowledge management; Information technology; Information networks
Notes: Title from ebook title screen (viewed Feb. 1, 2005).

A selection of revised papers from a workshop organized by the editors and held in Amsterdam on 21-22 May 2002, with the addition of some invited papers by social researchers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Social capital and information technology: current debates and research / Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf; title: Trust, acceptance, and alignment: the role of IT in redirecting a community / Anna-Liisa Syrjänen and Kari Kuutti; title: The effects of dispersed virtual communities on face-to-face social capital / Anita Blanchard; title: Find what binds: building social capital in an Iranian NGO community system / Markus Rohde; title: How does the internet affect social capital? / Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman; title: The ties that share: relational characteristics that facilitate information seeking / Rob Cross and Stephen P. Borgatti; title: Exploring the eagerness to share knowledge: the role of social capital and ICT in knowledge sharing / Bart van den Hooff, Jan de Ridder, and Eline Aukema; title: Design requirements for knowledge-sharing tools: a need for social capital analysis / Marleen Huysman; title: Explaining the underutilization of business-to-business clusters: the role of social capital / Charles Steinfield; title: The impact of social capital on project-based learning / Mike Bresnen ... [et al.]; title: Sharing expertise: the next step for knowledge management / Mark S. Ackerman and Christine Halverson; title: Pearls of wisdom: social capital building in informal learning environments / Robbin Chapman; title: Expertise finding: approaches to foster social capital / Andreas Becks, Tim Reichling, and Volker Wulf; title: Fostering social creativity by increasing social capital / Gerhard Fischer, Eric Scharff, and Yunwen Ye.