What drives members to continue sharing knowledge in a virtual professional community? The role of knowledge self-efficacy and satisfaction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4798 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 472-484

  Cheung, Christy M K ^a   Lee, Matthew K O ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Community of practice; e business; Information systems continuance; Knowledge management; Knowledge self efficacy; Knowledge sharing; Satisfaction; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

KNOWLEDGE SELF EFFICACY; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38149047545     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76719-0_46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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