... Location memory Children’s library navigation Motivation Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan) 1112404501F Funding: This work was supported by Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan) (grant no. 1112404501F). As datasets become increasingly large...

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...Reijo Savolainen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the picture of the motivators for information seeking by comparing two cognitive psychological approaches to motivation: self-determination theory (SDT) and expectancy-value theories (EVTs). Design/methodology/approach...

...Nora Hangel; Diana Schmidt-Pfister Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine researchers’ motivations to publish by comparing different career stages (PhD students; temporarily employed postdocs/new professors; scholars with permanent employment) with regard to epistemic, pragmatic...

...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...