Social Capital and Information Technology: Current Debates and Research
Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf
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Social Capital in Civic Engagement
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Trust, Acceptance, and Alignment: The Role of IT in Redirecting a Community
Anna-Liisa Syrjänen and Kari Kuutti
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The Effects of Dispersed Virtual Communities on Face-to-Face Social Capital
Anita Blanchard
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Find What Binds: Building Social Capital in an Iranian NGO Community System
Markus Rohde
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How Does the Internet Affect Social Capital?
Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman
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Social Capital in Knowledge Sharing
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The Ties That Share: Relational Characteristics That Facilitate Information Seeking
Rob Cross and Stephen P. Borgatti
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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
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Design Requirements for Knowledge-Sharing Tools: A Need for Social Capital Analysis
Marleen Huysman
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Explaining the Underutilization of Business-to-Business E-Commerce in Geographically Defined Business Clusters: The Role of Social Capital
Charles Steinfeld
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The Impact of Social Capital on Project-Based Learning
Mike Bresnan, Linda Edelman, Sue Newell, Harry Scarbrough and Jacky Swan
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Applications of IT
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Sharing Expertise: The Next Step for Knowledge Management
Mark Ackerman and Christine Halverson
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Pearls of Wisdom: Social Capital Building in Informal Learning Environments
Robbin Chapman
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Expertise Finding: Approaches to Foster Social Capital
Andreas Becks, Tim Reichling and Volker Wulf
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Fostering Social Creativity by Increasing Social Capital
Gerhard Fischer, Eric Scharff and Yunwen Ye
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