The rapid growth of network access and the development of Web 2.0 have resulted in the popularity of virtual communities (VCs), such as Wikipedia, Facebook, professional forums and social network communities. The impact of VCs increasingly spreads over a broad range of fields, from social and educational to business. The content (i.e., knowledge) that VC members provide is the factor that deter...

this research aims at investigating the role of certain factors in organizational culture in the success of knowledge sharing. the research question asks which cultural factors affect knowledge sharing in r&d; center of petrochemical industry. research method used in research is survey. of the 190 survey packages sent out, 132 of the questionnaires returned. to analyze data we use spearman corr...

in the business environment, virtual organizations can meet market needs efficiently and effectively via knowledge worker and high flexibility and also generate significant competitive advantage. due to obtaining the advantage of these organizations, managerial issues related to them must be recognized and organized. decrease of face to face relationship, geographically distributed, dynamic job...

This study examines organizational knowledge sharing in enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. Knowledge sharing in ERP implementation is somewhat unique, because ERP requires end users to have more divergent knowledge than is required in the use of traditional systems. Because of the length of time and commitment that ERP implementation requires, end users also are often more invol...

A publicly verifiable secret sharing scheme is more applicable than a verifiable secret sharing because of the property that the validity of the shares distributed by the dealer can be verified by any party. In this paper, we construct a non-interactive and informationtheoretic publicly verifiable secret sharing by a computationally binding and unconditionally hiding commitment scheme and zero-...