TY - GEN
T1 - The effect of virtual community culture and group cohesion on knowledge sharing
T2 - International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, CSSE 2008
AU - Ming, Chen
AU - Jianming, Zhou
AU - Linwei, Zhao
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - With the rapid development of internet, virtual community has become the most import knowledge sharing platform. And this study investigates the inter-relationships among virtual community culture, group cohesion and knowledge sharing. Based on 185 questionnaires from Chinese netizens in professional virtual community, this paper implements a structural equation model to test the research framework and hypotheses. The results show that virtual community culture has direct positive impact on group cohesion but no direct positive impact on knowledge sharing. In addition, group cohesion plays an intermediary role between virtual community culture and knowledge sharing, and has direct positive impact on knowledge sharing, which indicates that group cohesion is very important to Chinese netizens for knowledge sharing activity under the rapid changed environment of knowledge economy.
AB - With the rapid development of internet, virtual community has become the most import knowledge sharing platform. And this study investigates the inter-relationships among virtual community culture, group cohesion and knowledge sharing. Based on 185 questionnaires from Chinese netizens in professional virtual community, this paper implements a structural equation model to test the research framework and hypotheses. The results show that virtual community culture has direct positive impact on group cohesion but no direct positive impact on knowledge sharing. In addition, group cohesion plays an intermediary role between virtual community culture and knowledge sharing, and has direct positive impact on knowledge sharing, which indicates that group cohesion is very important to Chinese netizens for knowledge sharing activity under the rapid changed environment of knowledge economy.
KW - Empirical study
KW - Group cohesion
KW - Knowledge sharing
KW - Virtual community culture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79951472315&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSSE.2008.215
DO - 10.1109/CSSE.2008.215
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951472315
SN - 9780769533360
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, CSSE 2008
SP - 105
EP - 108
BT - Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, CSSE 2008
Y2 - 12 December 2008 through 14 December 2008
ER -