Why Should I Share? Examining Social Capital and Knowledge Contribution in Electronic Networks of Practice

By Molly McLure Wasko, Samer Faraj. MIS Q., 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Validity Issues in the Use of Social Network Analysis with Digital Trace Data (2011, neutral): “Validity Type Construct validity Examples Crowston and Howison (2005); Wasko and Faraj (2005); Wu et al. (2007) Recommendations Understand the theoretical significance of missing links; explore whether unrecorded actions (such as reading) need to be considered.”
How motivation, opportunity, and ability drive knowledge sharing: The constraining-factor model (2008, background): “, 2004); the effort involved in sharing knowledge (Darr and Kurtzberg, 2000); the perception that knowledge sharing is a way to build one’s reputation (Wasko and Faraj, 2005); belief in the organizational ownership of knowledge (Constant et al.”
In justice we trust: Exploring knowledge-sharing continuance intentions in virtual communities of practice (2010, background): “Knowledge resources and quality have been demonstrated as a performance or outcome of knowledge-sharing behavior in a VC (Chiu et al., 2006; Wasko & Faraj, 2005).”
Internal Social Capital and the Attraction of Early Contributions in Crowdfunding (2015, background): “Norms of generalized reciprocity have been documented in the open source community (Metiu & Kogut, 2001) and in other online communities (Wasko & Faraj, 2005).”
Network Exchange Patterns in Online Communities (2011, background): “For example, online communities support distributed R&D efforts (Orlikowski, Yates, Okamura and Fujimoto 1995), enable open source software development (von Hippel and von Krogh 2003), support firm-hosted user interactions (Jeppesen and Frederiksen 2006), and sustain extraorganizational work practic”
The Temporal Elements of Psychological Resilience: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Individuals, Families, and Communities (2015, background): “In a related study (Wasko & Faraj, 2005), knowledge sharing was linked to structural social capital, operationally defined in this case as sharing individuals who were more central to the virtual community and who had a greater number of connections to other community members.”
Travelers’ food experience sharing on social network sites (2017, background): “Previous studies such as Wasko and Faraj (2005) revealed that motivation to share experience can be determined by both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: the need for recognition (extrinsic) and a sense of belonging (intrinsic).”
Influence of Experiences on Memories, Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions: A Study of Creative Tourism (2016, methodology): “PLS does not generate overall goodness of fit indices, so the R2 can be used to evaluate the explanatory power of the model (Wasko & Faraj, 2005).”
Knowledge Sharing Among Tourists via Social Media: A Comparison Between Facebook and TripAdvisor (2017, background): “For instance, Wasko and Faraj (2005), who investigated an online network linking members of a legal professional association in the United States, found that online social capital can stimulate knowledge exchange.”
Social network, social trust and shared goals in organizational knowledge sharing (2008, background): “Here, we considered both to be equally important parts of organizational knowledge.”