Exploration of Social Capital and Knowledge Sharing: An Empirical Study on Student Virtual Teams

Authors:
Ying Chieh Liu;FengChia Li
Affiliations:
Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan;JenTeh Junior College, Taiwan
Venue:
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies
Year:
2012

Citing 10
Cited 0

The Mutual Knowledge Problem and Its Consequences for Dispersed Collaboration

Organization Science
Virtual teams: a review of current literature and directions for future research

ACM SIGMIS Database
Understanding knowledge sharing in virtual communities: an integration of social capital and social cognitive theories

Decision Support Systems
An Inductively Derived Model of Leader-Initiated Relationship Building with Virtual Team Members

Journal of Management Information Systems
Knowledge Management Enablers, Processes, and Organizational Performance: An Integrative View and Empirical Examination

Journal of Management Information Systems
In justice we trust: Exploring knowledge-sharing continuance intentions in virtual communities of practice

Computers in Human Behavior
Social capital and individual motivations on knowledge sharing: Participant involvement as a moderator

Information and Management
Why should i share? examining social capital and knowledge contribution in electronic networks of practice

MIS Quarterly
The impact of knowledge coordination on virtual team performance over time

MIS Quarterly
The shoemaker's children: using wikis for information systems teaching, research, and publication

MIS Quarterly

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Although research on virtual teams is becoming more popular, there is a gap in the understanding of how social capital affects knowledge sharing and creating, and their impacts on virtual team performance. To fill in this gap, this study establishes a framework by incorporating social capital with the SECI model and further examines it with an experiment on 65 student virtual teams. The results show that three factors of social capital, namely network ties, shared vision and trust are positively related to the four SECI modes, namely socialization, internalization, combination and externalization, and the latter three factors are found to be positively related to virtual team performance. The contributions of this study are twofold. The framework examines the relationships between social capital and the SECI model, which brought a broader prospective of studying knowledge management in a virtual team context. Moreover, leaders and managers of virtual teams should be made aware of enhancing the effects of social capital to improve the processes of knowledge sharing and creating, and encouraging internalizationn, combination and externalization to substitute the role of socialization.