Net gain: expanding markets through virtual communities
Net gain: expanding markets through virtual communities
The quality of online social relationships
Communications of the ACM - How the virtual inspires the real
The Measurement of Web-Customer Satisfaction: An Expectation and Disconfirmation Approach
Information Systems Research
Supporting the Evolution of Workflow Patterns for Virtual Communities
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 6 - Volume 6
Evolving communities of practice: IBM global services experience
IBM Systems Journal
Building systems that users want to use
Communications of the ACM - The Blogosphere
Virtual Community Success: A Uses and Gratifications Perspective
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Factors Affecting the Loyal Use of Knowledge Management Systems
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
The emerging discourse of knowledge management: a new dawn for information science research?
Journal of Information Science
Review Article: Reviewing the impact of virtual teams in the information age
Journal of Information Science
Knowledge map creation and maintenance for virtual communities of practice
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Knowledge Management: An Organizational Capabilities Perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
Toward Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution
Journal of Management Information Systems
The DeLone and McLean Model of Information Systems Success: A Ten-Year Update
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Understanding participant loyalty intentions in virtual communities
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Understanding the sustainability of a virtual community: model development and empirical test
Journal of Information Science
How to keep members using the information in a computer-supported social network
Computers in Human Behavior
Individual characteristics and the intention to continue project escalation
Computers in Human Behavior
Building a taxonomy of a firm's knowledge assets: A perspective of durability and profitability
Journal of Information Science
Information sharing behaviour on blogs in Taiwan: Effects of interactivities and gender differences
Journal of Information Science
Eliciting a sense of virtual community among knowledge contributors
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Forming relationship commitments to online communities: The role of social motivations
Computers in Human Behavior
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Online idea contests: identifying factors for user retention
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
Social Science Computer Review
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The advance of internet technology has stimulated the rise of professional virtual communities (PVCs). The objective of PVCs is to encourage people to exploit or explore knowledge through websites. However, many virtual communities have failed due to the reluctance of members to continue their participation in these PVCs. Motivated by such concerns, this study formulates and tests a theoretical model to explain the factors influencing individuals' intention to continue participating in PVCs' knowledge activities. Drawing from the information system and knowledge management literatures, two academic perspectives related to PVC continuance are incorporated in the integrated model. This model posits that an individual's intention to stay in a professional virtual community is influenced by a contextual factor and technological factors. Specifically, the antecedents of PVC members' intention to continue sharing knowledge include social interaction ties capital and satisfaction at post-usage stage. These variables, in turn, are adjusted based on the confirmation of pre-usage expectations. A longitudinal study is conducted with 360 members of a professional virtual community. Results indicate that the contextual factor and technological factors both exert significant impacts on PVC participants' continuance intentions.