Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
The Role of Trust in Organizational Settings
Organization Science
Information Systems Research
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Customer Satisfaction in Virtual Environments: A Study of Online Investing
Management Science
Is anybody out there?: antecedents of trust in global virtual teams
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Managing virtual workplaces and teleworking with information technology
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Exploring knowledge contribution from an OCB perspective
Information and Management
Effects of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on employee knowledge sharing intentions
Journal of Information Science
Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
What Trust Means in E-Commerce Customer Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Conceptual Typology
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Endowment heterogeneity and identifiability in the information-exchange dilemma
Computers in Human Behavior
A Research Agenda for Trust in Online Environments
Journal of Management Information Systems
Trust and TAM in online shopping: an integrated model
MIS Quarterly
An empirical study of what drives users to share knowledge in virtual communities
KSEM'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management
Breaking the Myths of Rewards: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes about Knowledge Sharing
Information Resources Management Journal
Knowledge evolution course discovery in a professional virtual community
Knowledge-Based Systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Exploration of Social Capital and Knowledge Sharing: An Empirical Study on Student Virtual Teams
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies
Knowledge construction in an outsider community: Extending the communities of practice concept
Computers in Human Behavior
Disclosure Intention of Location-Related Information in Location-Based Social Network Services
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems
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Knowledge has become the key to success in the global knowledge economy, not only for organizations, but also in virtual communities of practice (VCoPs). The major challenge in sustaining a VCoP is acquiring knowledge spontaneously from members. This challenge leads to our research question: what encourages VCoP members to voluntarily and continuously help one another through continuous knowledge-sharing? In this study, we integrate three research streams-justice, trust, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB)-into one model in order to analyze the antecedents of knowledge-sharing continuance intentions in VCoPs. Our model theorizes that the four dimensions of justice (i.e., distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice) affect two different referents of trust (i.e., trust in members and trust in management). We further link these trust constructs to altruism (i.e., OCB directed to the individual) or conscientiousness (i.e., OCB directed to the organization), which in turn effect the knowledge-sharing continuance intentions in VCoPs. This hypothetical model is empirically validated using data collected from 142 members of an IT-oriented VCoP in Taiwan. Our integrated model has been helpful in VCoP research as it broadens our theoretical understanding of knowledge-sharing continuance intentions.