Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know
Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know
The Social Construction of Meaning: An Alternative Perspective on Information Sharing
Information Systems Research
SEARCC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 South East Asia Regional Computer Science Confederation (SEARCC) Conference - Volume 46
Online interactions and social capital: distinguishing between new and existing ties
Social Science Computer Review
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Innovating Collaborative Content Creation: The Role of Altruism and Wiki Technology
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Journal of Management Information Systems
Computers in Human Behavior
Knowledge sharing and creation in a teachers' professional virtual community
Computers & Education
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
Testing an integrative theoretical model of knowledge-sharing behavior in the context of Wikipedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Breaking the Myths of Rewards: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes about Knowledge Sharing
Information Resources Management Journal
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To facilitate professional development of teachers in the online context, the online community of practice (CoPs) has become an important platform in which individuals with similar interests or common goals get together to share their resources, develop working strategies, solve problems, and improve individual as well as organizational performance. In this study, we have collected self-reported knowledge-sharing behaviors from 321 members of the largest online professional CoP of teachers in Taiwan. The results show that closer connections among online CoP members can lead to greater recognition of and altruism towards others. Moreover, performance expectation and self-efficacy belief play essential roles in knowledge-sharing participation. Thus, the development of social relationships among online teacher members helps them obtain potential resources and reliable support through their social network. Also, teachers' membership in the online professional CoP fosters a prosocial attitude that heightens their willingness to share useful resources and solve other members' problems, both emotionally and instrumentally. Consequently, knowledge-sharing behaviors, in terms of knowledge giving and knowing receiving, are significantly predicted by prosocial commitment and performance expectation respectively. The implications to both research and practice are provided in this paper.