Investigating ownership and the willingness to share information online

Authors:
Daphne R. Raban;Sheizaf Rafaeli
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Business and the Center for the Study of the Information Society, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel;Graduate School of Business and the Center for the Study of the Information Society, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
Venue:
Computers in Human Behavior
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Networks offer the promise of sharing information. This project aims to experimentally investigate aspects of the propensity to share information online, with a specific focus on the system-induced status of information. Is a simple manipulation of the cognitive status of information sufficient to gain changes in sharing levels? A simple computerized game was used to simulate business decision situations that required participants to use information, and enabled sharing it. Our hypotheses compared the willingness to share under different conditions of system-induced ownership of information. Participants' perception of information source and ownership was the independent variable. Sharing was higher for privately owned expertise than it was for organizationally owned content. Ownership makes a difference. It serves to increase sharing of information. Ownership can and should be framed by system design.