Investigating Web 2.0 for knowledge sharing : analysis of a workplace health promotion portal

Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) is an important issue, which is being promoted by Singapore's Health Promotion Board for a number of years. This dissertation focuses on the use of Web 2.0 tools in a WHP portal for knowledge sharing and diffusion and how actors and social efficacy affects the...

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Main Author: Varun Kumar Jain
Other Authors: Ravishankar Sharma
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/19154
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) is an important issue, which is being promoted by Singapore's Health Promotion Board for a number of years. This dissertation focuses on the use of Web 2.0 tools in a WHP portal for knowledge sharing and diffusion and how actors and social efficacy affects the knowledge flows in the absence of physical proximity and personal relationships. It also examines how members can create and diffuse new knowledge in the tacit and explicit knowledge domain.