TY - GEN
T1 - Epistemic motivation and knowledge contribution behaviors in wiki teams
T2 - 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016
AU - Zhang, Xiaojie
AU - Fang, Yulin
AU - He, Wei
AU - Zhang, Yixiang
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Prior research on how to facilitate individuals' participation in wiki knowledge contribution generally pays little attention to the differentiation of knowledge contributions and the embeddedness of individual team members in team context. This paper examines how an individual's epistemic motivation and team task reflexivity interact to jointly influence adding, deleting and revising behaviors in distinct ways. Empirical data of 166 university students in 51 teams support our hypotheses. Individuals' adding, deleting and revising behaviors on wikis are influenced differently by the interactive effect of individual epistemic motivation and team task reflexivity. First, the positive relationship between epistemic motivation and adding behaviors is stronger when the team's task reflexivity is high. Second, the epistemic motivation stimulates deleting behaviors only when team task reflexivity is high. Third, epistemic motivation is significantly associated with more revising behaviors no matter the level of task reflexivity is high or low.
AB - Prior research on how to facilitate individuals' participation in wiki knowledge contribution generally pays little attention to the differentiation of knowledge contributions and the embeddedness of individual team members in team context. This paper examines how an individual's epistemic motivation and team task reflexivity interact to jointly influence adding, deleting and revising behaviors in distinct ways. Empirical data of 166 university students in 51 teams support our hypotheses. Individuals' adding, deleting and revising behaviors on wikis are influenced differently by the interactive effect of individual epistemic motivation and team task reflexivity. First, the positive relationship between epistemic motivation and adding behaviors is stronger when the team's task reflexivity is high. Second, the epistemic motivation stimulates deleting behaviors only when team task reflexivity is high. Third, epistemic motivation is significantly associated with more revising behaviors no matter the level of task reflexivity is high or low.
KW - Adding/deleting/revising behavior
KW - Cross-level
KW - Epistemic motivation
KW - Team task reflexivity
KW - Wiki
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85011051600
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85011051600
T3 - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings
BT - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings
PB - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
Y2 - 27 June 2016 through 1 July 2016
ER -