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What Drives Members to Continue Sharing Knowledge in a Virtual Professional Community? The Role of Knowledge Self-efficacy and Satisfaction

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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2007)

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The present research explains members’ intention to continue sharing knowledge in a virtual community in terms of knowledge self-efficacy and satisfaction. The research model was tested with the current users of a virtual professional community (Hong Kong Education City) and was accounted for 32% of the variance. Both knowledge self-efficacy and satisfaction play an important role in explaining members’ intention to continue sharing knowledge. The findings contribute to the foundation for future research aimed at improve-ing our understanding of user continuance behavior in virtual communities.

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  1. Department of Finance and Decision Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

    Christy M. K. Cheung

  2. Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Matthew K. O. Lee

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Cheung, C.M.K., Lee, M.K.O. (2007). What Drives Members to Continue Sharing Knowledge in a Virtual Professional Community? The Role of Knowledge Self-efficacy and Satisfaction. In: Zhang, Z., Siekmann, J. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4798. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76719-0_46

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