Communications of the ACM
Audience-specific online community design
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
Developing and Validating Trust Measures for e-Commerce: An Integrative Typology
Information Systems Research
The Measurement of Web-Customer Satisfaction: An Expectation and Disconfirmation Approach
Information Systems Research
Beliefs and attitudes affecting intentions to share information in an organizational setting
Information and Management
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Building Effective Online Marketplaces with Institution-Based Trust
Information Systems Research
Communities of practice and organizational performance
IBM Systems Journal
Internet self-efficacy and electronic service acceptance
Decision Support Systems
Literature derived reference models for the adoption of online shopping
Information and Management
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Collaborative work and knowledge management
A Conceptual Framework for Demographic Groups Resistant to On-line Community Interaction
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
The DeLone and McLean Model of Information Systems Success: A Ten-Year Update
Journal of Management Information Systems
Trust and TAM in online shopping: an integrated model
MIS Quarterly
Breaking the Myths of Rewards: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes about Knowledge Sharing
Information Resources Management Journal
Facilitating experience reuse among software project managers
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Methodology for the implementation of knowledge management systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A meta-process for information security risk management
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
An application of agent-based simulation to knowledge sharing
Decision Support Systems
Understanding participant loyalty intentions in virtual communities
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
PAKM '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
Understanding the determinants of EKR usage from social, technological and personal perspectives
Journal of Information Science
Knowledge sharing in virtual communities – a review of the empirical research
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Fostering the determinants of knowledge sharing in professional virtual communities
Computers in Human Behavior
Towards a knowledge-sharing approach for Information Security Risk Management
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering
Social interaction and continuance intention in online auctions: A social capital perspective
Decision Support Systems
Computers in Human Behavior
Examining identity and organizational citizenship behaviour in computer-mediated communication
Journal of Information Science
Analysis of participation in an online photo-sharing community: A multidimensional perspective
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Exploring and mitigating social loafing in online communities
Computers in Human Behavior
Explaining mobile community user participation from a social capital perspective
International Journal of Mobile Communications
Mobile collaboration: exploring the role of social capital
ACM SIGMIS Database
Information sharing behaviour on blogs in Taiwan: Effects of interactivities and gender differences
Journal of Information Science
Distributed recommender for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Journal of Information Science
Motivations of Wikipedia content contributors
Computers in Human Behavior
Altruistic traits and organizational conditions in helping online
Computers in Human Behavior
The influence of collaborative technology knowledge on advice network structures
Decision Support Systems
Knowledge-based virtual organizations for the E-decisional community
KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part II
Knowledge sharing in E-collaboration
EGOV'10 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic government
Information exchange in virtual communities under extreme disaster conditions
Decision Support Systems
Factors influencing secondary school teachers' adoption of teaching blogs
Computers & Education
Information and Management
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Examining knowledge contribution from the perspective of an online identity in blogging communities
Computers in Human Behavior
Social and attitudinal determinants of viral marketing dynamics
Computers in Human Behavior
The change in user and IT dynamics: Blogs as IT-enabled virtual self-presentation
Computers in Human Behavior
Antecedents of an experienced sense of virtual community
Computers in Human Behavior
Why do people share news in social media?
AMT'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Active media technology
EC-TEL'11 Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Technology enhanced learning: towards ubiquitous learning
The Signaling Role of IT Features in Influencing Trust and Participation in Online Communities
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Relationship bonding for a better knowledge transfer climate: An ERP implementation research
Decision Support Systems
The effects of organizational learning environment factors on e-learning acceptance
Computers & Education
Forming relationship commitments to online communities: The role of social motivations
Computers in Human Behavior
News sharing in social media: The effect of gratifications and prior experience
Computers in Human Behavior
Extraction of user profile based on workflow and information flow
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Sustainability of Vertical Standards Consortia as Communities of Practice: A Multilevel Framework
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Factors Affecting Bloggers' Knowledge Sharing: An Investigation Across Gender
Journal of Management Information Systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Mining knowledge demands from information flow
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
How Peripheral Developers Contribute to Open-Source Software Development
Information Systems Research
What drives consumers to spread electronic word of mouth in online consumer-opinion platforms
Decision Support Systems
Understanding sustained participation in transactional virtual communities
Decision Support Systems
A social capital perspective on meta-knowledge contribution and social computing
Decision Support Systems
User assistance for collaborative knowledge construction
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
The cognitive selection framework for knowledge acquisition strategies in virtual communities
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
What makes bloggers share knowledge? An investigation on the role of trust
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
What to Tell About Me? Self-Presentation in Online Communities
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Social support mechanism in micro-blogosphere
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
The influence of self-discrepancy between the virtual and real selves in virtual communities
Computers in Human Behavior
User Satisfaction with Information Technology Service Delivery: A Social Capital Perspective
Information Systems Research
User community discovery from multi-relational networks
Decision Support Systems
Virtual learning communities: success factors and challenges
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
Exploration of Social Capital and Knowledge Sharing: An Empirical Study on Student Virtual Teams
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies
Cloud Computing Services: Theoretical Foundations of Ethical and Entrepreneurial Adoption Behaviour
International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing
Explaining members' proactive participation in virtual communities
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
International Journal of Knowledge Management
Journal of Global Information Management
Explicit Incentives in Online Communities: Boon or Bane?
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Factors Affecting Bloggers' Knowledge Sharing: An Investigation Across Gender
Journal of Management Information Systems
Self-disclosure at social networking sites: An exploration through relational capitals
Information Systems Frontiers
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Electronic word of mouth and knowledge sharing on social network sites: a social capital perspective
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
A tale of three sites: resource and knowledge sharing amongst computer science educators
Proceedings of the ninth annual international ACM conference on International computing education research
Successful knowledge sharing in virtual projects - a review of an EU FP7 project
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems
International Journal of e-Collaboration
International Journal of e-Collaboration
International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking
Social Science Computer Review
Exploring the interaction effects of social capital
Information and Management
Case studies in research: Is social capital effective for online learning?
Information and Management
Computers in Human Behavior
Aligning principal and agent's incentives: A principal-agent perspective of social networking sites
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Networked individuals predict a community wide outcome from their local information
Decision Support Systems
Tapping the educational potential of Facebook: Guidelines for use in higher education
Education and Information Technologies
Social Capital in Management Information Systems Literature
Journal of Information Technology Research
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The biggest challenge in fostering a virtual community is the supply of knowledge, namely the willingness to snare Knowledge with other members. This paper integrates the Social Cognitive Theory and the Social Capital Theory to construct a model for investigating the motivations behind people's knowledge sharing in virtual communities. The study holds that the facets of social capital -- social interaction ties, trust, norm of reciprocity, identification, shared vision and shared language -- will influence individuals' knowledge sharing in virtual communities. We also argue that outcome expectations -- community-related outcome expectations and personal outcome expectations -- can engender knowledge sharing in virtual communities. Data collected from 310 members of one professional virtual community provide support for the proposed model. The results help in identifying the motivation underlying individuals' knowledge sharing behavior in professional virtual communities. The implications for theory and practice and future research directions are discussed.