Social capital and information technology / edited by Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf.

Other author Huysman, Marleen.
Other author Wulf, Volker.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Descriptionix, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Social capital (Sociology)--Congresses.
Information technology--Social aspects. --Congresses.
Information networks--Social aspects. --Congresses.
Knowledge management--Congresses.
Organizational learning--Congresses.

Contents Social capital and information technology: current debates and research / Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf -- Trust, acceptance, and alignment: the role of IT in redirecting a community / Anna-Liisa Syrjänen and Kari Kuutti -- The effects of dispersed virtual communities on face-to-face social capital / Anita Blanchard -- Find what binds: building social capital in an Iranian NGO community system / Markus Rohde -- How does the internet affect social capital? / Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman -- The ties that share: relational characteristics that facilitate information seeking / Rob Cross and Stephen P. Borgatti -- 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 -- Design requirements for knowledge-sharing tools: a need for social capital analysis / Marleen Huysman -- Explaining the underutilization of business-to-business clusters: the role of social capital / Charles Steinfield -- The impact of social capital on project-based learning / Mike Bresnen ... [et al.] -- Sharing expertise: the next step for knowledge management / Mark S. Ackerman and Christine Halverson -- Pearls of wisdom: social capital building in informal learning environments / Robbin Chapman -- Expertise finding: approaches to foster social capital / Andreas Becks, Tim Reichling, and Volker Wulf -- Fostering social creativity by increasing social capital / Gerhard Fischer, Eric Scharff, and Yunwen Ye.
General noteA 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003068592
ISBN0262083310 (hc : alk. paper)