Knowledge-based systems and knowledge management: friends or foes
Information and Management
A design knowledge management system to support collaborative information product evolution
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on decision support in the new millennium
Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know
Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know
Knowledge Management: Problems, Promises, Realities, and Challenges
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Understanding it adoption decisions in small business: integrating current theories
Information and Management
Beliefs and attitudes affecting intentions to share information in an organizational setting
Information and Management
Testing the determinants of microcomputer usage via a structural equation model
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Navigation in information-intensive environments
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Exploring the outlands of the MIS discipline
A motivational model of microcomputer usage
Journal of Management Information Systems
Knowledge Management Strategies: Toward a Taxonomy
Journal of Management Information Systems
Breaking the Myths of Rewards: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes about Knowledge Sharing
Information Resources Management Journal
Altruistic traits and organizational conditions in helping online
Computers in Human Behavior
A motivational approach to information providing: A resource exchange perspective
Computers in Human Behavior
A cognitive model of intra-organizational knowledge-sharing motivations in the view of cross-culture
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The impact of blended e-learning on undergraduate academic essay writing in English (L2)
Computers & Education
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In knowledge management (KM)-related research, effective knowledge sharing is considered to be one of the most critical components of KM success. For the present research, the authors conducted a longitudinal, two-phased study to evaluate if the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and three variations of the Theory of Planned Behavior-namely, TPB, decomposed TPB (DTPB), and revised TPB (RTPB)-can adequately predict knowledge sharing behaviors. The first TRA-based study shows a severe limitation in the ability of the intention to predict actual knowledge sharing behaviors collected from a knowledge management platform. In a subsequent study, three variations of TPB-based models were employed to show that, although the independent variables (i.e., attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavior control that is decomposed into controllability and self-efficacy) give satisfactory explanations of variance in intention (R^242%), the intention-behavior gap still exists in each of the three models. Only the perceived self-efficacy in the revised TPB can directly predict knowledge sharing behaviors. This gap highlights the importance of knowledge sharing as a fundamentally social activity for which the actualization of intention into actions may be interrupted due to barriers such as a mistake-free culture or others' deliberate misinterpretations that may in turn cause unanticipated negative consequences to the person. The theoretical implication of this study is that in applying TPB to study knowledge sharing practices, researchers must focus on control beliefs that reflect people's capacity to overcome possible environmental challenges encountered in carrying out their knowledge sharing intentions.