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Using Web 2.0 to Share the Knowledge of Construction Safety as a Public Good in Nature Among Researchers: The Fable of Economic Animals

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Gone are the days when knowledge sharing depends solely on face-to-face meetings. With the help of Web 2.0, rapid and dynamic cross border knowledge sharing among construction safety researchers become possible. Nevertheless, empirical observation has shown that researchers are falling behind the curve. Generally speaking, there are two major types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic. Apparently, introducing extrinsic motivators on top of all intrinsic motivators can produce better results than relying solely on intrinsic motivation.

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This chapter is a revised version of the paper “Using Web 2.0 to Share the Knowledge of Construction Safety as a Public Good in Nature among Researchers: the fable of economic animals”, published in Economic Affair, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.73–79. The author would like to thank the publisher for granting the right to republish.

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  2. Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

    Sun Wah Poon

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Li, R.Y.M., Poon, S.W. (2013). Using Web 2.0 to Share the Knowledge of Construction Safety as a Public Good in Nature Among Researchers: The Fable of Economic Animals. In: Construction Safety. Risk Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35046-7_7

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