Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model of Knowledge-Sharing Behavior in the Context of Wikipedia

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1198-1212

  Cho, Hichang ^a   Chen, Meihui ^b   Chung, Siyoung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Ministry of National Development Government of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING PRACTICES; COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE; GENERALIZED RECIPROCITY; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SELF EFFICACY; SENSE OF BELONGING; SOCIAL FACTOR; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SUBJECTIVE NORM; THEORETICAL MODELS; WIKIPEDIA;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 77952987506     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21316     Document Type: Article

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