Issues and opinion on structural equation modeling
MIS Quarterly
Lessons from open-source software development
Communications of the ACM
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
The experienced "sense" of a virtual community: characteristics and processes
ACM SIGMIS Database
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Effects of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on employee knowledge sharing intentions
Journal of Information Science
A study of the intention–action gap in knowledge sharing practices
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Social network, social trust and shared goals in organizational knowledge sharing
Information and Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
Volunteers' involvement in online community based software development
Information and Management
Social relationship and its role in knowledge management systems usage
Information and Management
Consumer Empowerment Through Internet-Based Co-creation
Journal of Management Information Systems
Breaking the Myths of Rewards: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes about Knowledge Sharing
Information Resources Management Journal
Dispelling the myth of the socio-emotionally dissatisfied gamer
Computers in Human Behavior
Team participation and online gamer loyalty
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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The user community has been an important external source of a firm's product or service innovation. Users' innovation-conducive knowledge sharing enables the community to work as a vital source of innovation. But, traditional economic theories of innovation seem to provide few explanations about why such knowledge sharing takes place for free in the user community. Therefore, this study investigates what drives community users to freely share their innovation-conducive knowledge, using the theory of planned behavior. Based on an empirical analysis of the data from 1244 members of a South Korean online game user community, it reveals that intrinsic motivation, shared goals, and social trust are salient factors in promoting users' innovation-conducive knowledge sharing. Extrinsic motivation and social tie, however, were found to affect such sharing adversely, contingent upon whether a user is an innovator or a non-innovator. The study illustrates how social capital, in addition to individual motivations, forms and influences users' innovation-conducive knowledge sharing in the online gaming context.