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This study investigated the moderating effect of organizational knowledge management performance on the sharing and use of information encountered by serendipity within the…
Abstract
Purpose
This study investigated the moderating effect of organizational knowledge management performance on the sharing and use of information encountered by serendipity within the organization.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors surveyed 274 medical librarians from the top 100 medical schools.
Findings
Individual information encountering predicted information encountering at work, which, in turn, predicted organizational sharing of encountered information. When the propensity to encounter information was high, then organizational knowledge management performance moderated the effect between organizational encountering and organizational sharing of information. Encountered information at work was only present when high organizational knowledge management performance was in place.
Research limitations/implications
This finding helps information behavior researchers discover the transfer of behaviors from everyday life to organizational environments.
Practical implications
It shows the need for greater support for information encounterers at work and the role of knowledge management, which may enhance their contribution to the organizational objectives.
Originality/value
Information encountering involves finding information by chance. Studies on information encountering have not focused on work settings and if the individual propensity to encounter information translates to organizational settings. Also, the relationship between information encountering and organizational knowledge management has not been studied so far.
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Yueh-Min Huang, Ding-Chau Wang, Ho-Yuan Hsieh and Yong-Ming Huang
The purpose of this paper is to investigate what factors can affect individuals’ knowledge sharing on social media from the perspectives of personality traits and social capital.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate what factors can affect individuals’ knowledge sharing on social media from the perspectives of personality traits and social capital.
Design/methodology/approach
A theoretical model was developed with reference to the personality traits theory and the social capital theory. Accordingly, a questionnaire was designed to collect the individuals’ ideas on knowledge sharing on social media and further test the model. The questionnaire was then distributed to two LINE groups. Finally, the collected data were analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) approach.
Findings
Personality traits not only directly affect knowledge sharing, but also indirectly influence it via social capital. Of all personality traits, agreeableness, openness and extraversion directly and indirectly influence knowledge sharing.
Research limitations/implications
Knowledge sharing is undertaken by individuals and social groups. It starts with individuals and then diffuses to other members of a group.
Practical implications
Group managers have to identify the members who are friendly, open-minded or extroverted and encourage them to act as the bellwethers for knowledge sharing under an effective regulatory regime, through which intra-group knowledge sharing can be promoted.
Originality/value
This study introduces a new model to explore knowledge sharing on social media from individual and social perspectives. It illustrates what will affect individuals’ knowledge sharing on social media.
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