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121. Understanding Knowledge Sharing Willingness in Virtual Academic Community: A Survey Study on College Students

verfasst von : Rui Liu, Xiao Shao

Erschienen in: Emerging Technologies for Information Systems, Computing, and Management

Verlag: Springer New York

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Abstract

Virtual Academic Community, as a type of Learning Community, features on the exchange of academic-related ideas, experience, documents, comments and feedbacks. Although there is a growing interest in Learning Community and Virtual Communities of Practice, few studies have examined the influencing factors of knowledge sharing in Virtual Academic Community from an integrated viewpoint including personal and cultural perspectives. This paper conducts a survey study on the influencing factors of college students’ knowledge sharing willingness in Virtual Academic Community. The results indicate that self-efficacy, personal outcome expectation, guanxi and gaining face have positive effects on knowledge sharing willingness. Additionally, self-efficacy has a positive effect on community-related outcome expectation. Finally, research limitations are drawn and discussed.

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Metadaten
Titel
Understanding Knowledge Sharing Willingness in Virtual Academic Community: A Survey Study on College Students
verfasst von
Rui Liu
Xiao Shao
Copyright-Jahr
2013
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7010-6_121

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