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1 – 6 of 6Shih-Wei Chou, Chia-Shiang Hsu, Jiun-Yan Shiau, Ming-Kung Huang and Yi Chou
The purpose of this paper is to understand the formation of knowledge management (KM) decisions, including intention for knowledge contribution and knowledge exploration. The…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to understand the formation of knowledge management (KM) decisions, including intention for knowledge contribution and knowledge exploration. The authors build on the goal-directed model and a trust-based lens to develop a belief-trust-decision framework. The authors theorize belief as individual factors (one’s virtual skill) and environmental factors (cooperative norms, familiarity), and trust as emotional trust and cognitive trust. Individual factors represent one’s virtual skill to control knowledge exchange, while environmental factors reflect the level of support/control for this exchange by the context.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a survey method to collect data and partial least squares to analyze them.
Findings
The authors found that KM decision is affected by two types of trust, directly or indirectly. They are, in turn, influenced by individual factors and environmental factors.
Research limitations/implications
Generalizability of the findings to virtual communities with different collaboration protocol deserves further investigation. This study contributes to the research on KM and social behavior by providing a comprehensive explanation on KM decision through one’s goal achievement in knowledge exchange behavior, in terms of trust development. Besides, the authors theorize one’s belief on knowledge exchange as skill-control and context-control to represent the drivers for trust.
Practical implications
The results provide suggestion for managers regarding how skill-control and context-control should be managed to improve trust development, which serves as goal achievement for KM decisions.
Originality/value
The authors extend prior work by yielding a new insight into how and why one’s beliefs on skill-control and context-control for knowledge exchange are transferred into KM decision through one’s goal achievement, characterized as trust development at both emotional and cognitive levels.
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This study develops a belief-value-satisfaction model based on social cognitive theory. This paper aims to explain how relational virtual community (RVC) members’ beliefs on…
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Purpose
This study develops a belief-value-satisfaction model based on social cognitive theory. This paper aims to explain how relational virtual community (RVC) members’ beliefs on individual features and environments can be transformed into satisfaction through social learning strategies.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors followed a longitudinal, quasi-experimental field approach to collect data from two phases, which entailed the key informant approach to get the responses from those who participated in knowledge exchange in VC. The authors used partial least squares to examine the proposed hypotheses.
Findings
Satisfaction is measured as two dimensions – outcome and process. Value creation is conceptualized as social self-regulated learning (SRL), and its antecedents include lead userness, learning goal orientation and social influence. The results show that both dimensions of satisfaction are affected by social SRL, which in turn is influenced by learning goal orientation and social influence.
Originality/value
A systematic research for understanding satisfaction from a social learning perspective in relational virtual community settings remains absent. This study explains why and how relational virtual community members’ social SRL serves the role in leveraging resources and reducing uncertainty, from which they gain satisfaction.
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Shih-Wei Chou, Ming-Chia Hsieh and Hui-Chun Pan
This study aims to understand how information-sharing in live-streaming is formed through a motivational perspective. The authors provide a framework to explain how live-streaming…
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Purpose
This study aims to understand how information-sharing in live-streaming is formed through a motivational perspective. The authors provide a framework to explain how live-streaming services and attachment affect viewers' information-sharing decision.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a survey-based method to collect data and partial least squares to analyze them.
Findings
The proposed hypotheses are largely supported. The results show that information-sharing intention is influenced by both attachment to a creator and attachment to a group. These attachments are positively affected by live-streaming services. The findings contribute to live-streaming literature by conceptualizing motivation and motivational feedback as service and attachment respectively.
Practical implications
The findings suggest that live-streaming managers emphasize social-technical features and relationship development with others (creators, group members) to motivate viewers' participation in live-streaming.
Originality/value
This study addresses the gap of lacking a systematic consideration of motivation in the live-streaming context. As such, the authors conducted empirical research that describes the information-sharing through the motivation from service and feedback from attachment.
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The purpose of this paper is to solve the challenges in knowledge outcome (e.g. knowledge contribution, knowledge exploration) improvement at the post-adoption phase in the…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to solve the challenges in knowledge outcome (e.g. knowledge contribution, knowledge exploration) improvement at the post-adoption phase in the context of e-communities. This study develops a model by integrating dedication-constraint framework and self-presentation theory. The model proposes that knowledge outcomes at the post-adoption phase rely on relationship development between community members, conceptualized as commitment. The authors also hypothesize that members’ perceived online self-presentation quality, theorized as personal control and social influence, serves as the key means to motivate members’ commitment.
Design/methodology/approach
This study used survey instrument to collect data and adopted partial least squares to test the proposed hypotheses.
Findings
The results show that perceived online self-presentation quality positively affects relationship development, which in turn affects continuance intention for knowledge outcomes.
Research limitations/implications
This study expands the dedication-constraint framework by integrating the self-presentation theory. This study contributes new knowledge by proposing a model that delineates the relationship between online self-presentation quality, relationship development, and knowledge outcomes at the post-adoption stage.
Practical implications
This study shows that members’ perceived online self-presentation quality affects both affective commitment and calculative commitment, which in turn affect knowledge outcomes, suggesting the important role of the perceived quality in stimulating a member’s post-adoption reactions.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the research on post-adoption behavior in an e-community context by accounting for the influence of e-community features in self-presentation quality and dedication-constraint mechanisms on post-adoption phenomena.
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This study aims to better understand individuals' motives for contributing knowledge in an online community.
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Purpose
This study aims to better understand individuals' motives for contributing knowledge in an online community.
Design/methodology/approach
An integrated model is developed based on a motivational model and social cognitive theory. To validate the model two online communities: the Electronic Engineering Times in Taiwan and China were surveyed.
Findings
It was found that both perceived identity verification and performance expectancy are positively associated with satisfaction, which in turn affects knowledge contribution. Performance expectancy is affected by both computer self‐efficacy and computer anxiety, and perceived identity verification is influenced by members' innovativeness in IT.
Originality/value
This is the first study which aims to assess the relationships between individuals' differences, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and knowledge contribution. The findings can help managers to build an effective community.
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Rehab Iftikhar and Khadija Mawra
This paper focuses on knowledge storage, knowledge accessibility and the associated challenges with these processes in an interorganizational project. For this purpose, the…
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Purpose
This paper focuses on knowledge storage, knowledge accessibility and the associated challenges with these processes in an interorganizational project. For this purpose, the context of the Orange Line (OL) metro train project in Pakistan is examined, where multiple organizations were involved.
Design/methodology/approach
This study adopts an exploratory single case study approach. The empirical data comprise semi-structured interviews and archival documents. Thematic analysis is used for analyzing the data.
Findings
The distinct findings include (1) the use of knowledge storage systems, such as manual storage systems, electronic storage systems and assigning a dedicated resource; (2) that knowledge accessibility occurs at different levels within the organization (including intradepartmental and interdepartmental levels) as well as at interorganizational levels and (3) the challenges, such as misuse of knowledge, time pressures, confidentiality of sensitive knowledge, government regulations and the reliance on human memory, which are associated with knowledge storage and knowledge accessibility. Based on the findings, an integrative framework of the interplay between knowledge storage, knowledge accessibility and challenges is proposed.
Originality/value
This paper contributes to the literature on resource-based theory by examining knowledge storage and accessibility in an interorganizational project.
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