In justice we trust: Exploring knowledge-sharing continuance intentions in virtual communities of practice

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-246

  Fang, Yu Hui ^a   Chiu, Chao Min ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Altruism; Conscientiousness; Justice; Knowledge sharing; Trust; Virtual communities of practice

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE; HYPOTHETICAL MODELS; INTEGRATED MODELS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; TURN EFFECT; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 71649085120     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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