...Binhua Ye; Chaoran Chen; Jiantong Zhang Purpose What’s the flow path of knowledge sharing among members in online health community (OHC)? Exploration of this issue could shed light on mechanisms behind user knowledge sharing and interaction on OHC, but few studies have focused on it. This study...

... their services through learning by sharing. Yet, sharing requires time and effort. This study examines the motivations of civil servants to share knowledge and their knowledge-sharing behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted an online survey to collect quantitative data from civil...

..., and university-industry linkages, although the significance of these eandbs varied between the three knowledge processes, knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer. Overall, Mauritius, with a less developed university sector, faced more challenges in respect of knowledge management than did...

...Minhyung Kang Purpose Continuous knowledge sharing by active users, who are highly active in answering questions, is crucial to the sustenance of social question-and-answer (Q&A) sites. The purpose of this paper is to examine such knowledge sharing considering reason-based elaborate decision...

... management (KM) behaviors: knowledge acquisition, knowledge storage, knowledge sharing, and knowledge application. Design/methodology/approach A survey-based approach was used to collect data from 221 employees from five knowledge-intensive firms. Findings The partial least square analyses confirmed...

...Minhyung Kang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on active users who are key contributors to online social question-and-answer (Q&A) sites, and examine antecedents of their knowledge-sharing continuance intention, based on expectation-confirmation theory and organizational justice...

...Peyman Akhavan; S. Mahdi Hosseini; Morteza Abbasi; Manuchehr Manteghi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of socio-psychological factors from different theoretical perspectives, as well as the roles of technological and cultural facilitators on knowledge sharing (KS...

...Yu-Wei Chang; Ping-Yu Hsu; Wen-Lung Shiau; Ronghua Yi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how customer power of environmental factors affects customer support (CS) engineers’ personal motivations in a knowledge-sharing context. The authors examine extrinsic (i.e. organizational...

...., 2011 ; Manning and Sydow, 2011). Decision making Knowledge sharing Macro techniques Organizational knowledge network formation Pharmaceutical R&D organizations Project-based businesses Dr Atieh Bourouni can be contacted at: bourouni@iust.ac.ir © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

... be contacted at: Paul2.matthews@uwe.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Epistemology Social networking sites Internet Communities Knowledge sharing Information profession A group of friends are gathered around a loud and persuasive man in a pub, who is holding forth...

...Frances Johnson; Jennifer Rowley; Michelle Peel; Jennifer Rowley Purpose This paper seeks to make a contribution to understanding of knowledge sharing in the public sector, with specific reference to a context in which multi‐agency working is important, and the information being shared is personal...

... and storytelling represent an opportunity for other organisations to use similar techniques in their efforts to improve knowledge sharing. Originality/value This is the first time that a case study exploring the use of stories and storytelling in the South African mining industry has used empirical research...

...Everd Jacobs; Gert Roodt Purpose The objective of this paper is to discuss the development of a knowledge sharing questionnaire and the role of knowledge sharing in predicting turnover intentions of registered professional nurses. Design/methodology/approach A literature study was conducted...

...Nadene King; Neels Kruger; Jaco Pretorius Purpose Numerous authors contend that there are dissimilarities in the way people, especially those from different cultural backgrounds, interpret or accept knowledge sharing. Ribiere and Sitar argue that, as a result of their educational systems, western...

...@up.ac.za © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Knowledge sharing Information facilities Learning E‐learning Objectives The Internet is widely seen as a tool holding much promise in bringing information to developing countries (World Bank, 1998 ; Braun, 1999 ; Heeks, 1999...