Creatures: Entertainment Software Agents with Artificial Life
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The Effectiveness of Knowledge Transfer Portfolios in Software Process Improvement: A Field Study
Information Systems Research
The effects of socio-technical enablers on knowledge sharing: an exploratory examination
Journal of Information Science
The impact of anonymity on weblog credibility
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Analyzing community knowledge sharing behavior
UMAP'10 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
Information sharing and timing: findings from two finnish organizations
CoLIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Context: conceptions of Library and Information Sciences
A social status perspective of network utility over electronic channels in academic communities
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The Microevolution of Routines: How Problem Solving and Social Preferences Interact
Organization Science
An investigation of information sharing and seeking behaviors in online investment communities
Computers in Human Behavior
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This study investigated the effects of social status and perceived expertise on the emphasis of unique and shared knowledge within functionally heterogeneous groups. While perceived expertise did not increase the individual's emphasis of their own unique knowledge, perceived experts were more likely than nonexperts to emphasize shared knowledge and other member's unique knowledge contributions. Additionally, socially isolated members participated more in discussions and emphasized more of their unique knowledge than did socially connected members. While unique knowledge contributions increased the positive perception of social isolates, similar unique knowledge contributions decreased the positive perception of socially connected members. Finally, socially connected group members gave greater attention to the unique knowledge contributions of the socially isolated member than to the contributions of their socially connected other, but more favorably evaluated members to whom they were more favorably connected than those to whom they were not. We discuss the implications of our findings for managing knowledge exchange within diverse groups.