Factors that Promote Knowledge Sharing on Academic Social Networking Sites: An Empirical Study

Koranteng, Felix Nti; Wiafe, Isaac

doi:10.1007/s10639-018-9825-0

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“…Consequently, social media have gained acceptance for knowledge sharing activities. Their applications include ASNS, where generic social influence principles have been identified to promote knowledge sharing behaviour (Koranteng & Wiafe, ).…”

Section: Persuasive Social Features and Knowledge Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Sin and Kim (), the lack of shared language often hinders successful interactions among individuals from different disciplines. Thus, for individuals to effectively interact on ASNS, there must be a shared vocabulary (Koranteng & Wiafe, ). Moreover, because groups formed on ASNS are mostly domain‐specific, there is a higher probability that members will have a shared interpretation, especially regarding jargon and keywords.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As mentioned earlier, groups on ASNS are formed based on a particular discipline and thus, users readily find groups in their relevant field and with similar objectives. While this is true, how such similarities affect interactions on ASNS is not definite (Koranteng & Wiafe, ). Therefore, to explore this relationship further, it is hypothesized that:H1b Shared vision positively influence social interaction ties within an academic social networking site.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As previously defined in Table , social identification emphasizes an individual's sense of belongingness to a group (Koranteng & Wiafe, ). According to the social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, ), individuals classify themselves as group members through participation in group activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In contrast to generic SNS such as Facebook and Twitter, some SNS are specifically designed for academic collaboration to promote knowledge sharing (Jeng, He, Jiang, & Zhang, ; Koranteng & Wiafe, ). These are called academic social networking sites (ASNS).…”

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Persuasive system features have been widely adopted to encourage attitude and behaviour change. Recently, most social networking sites (SNS) adopt some form of persuasive system features that leverage social influence to deliberately induce prescribed behaviours in their users. However, studies on how these features can be used to promote knowledge sharing are inadequate; particularly, regarding how SNS that have been developed solely for academic purposes can adopt these features to promote knowledge sharing. To address this knowledge gap, this study integrates constructs from the social capital theory and persuasive systems design model to investigate the impact of persuasive social features on knowledge sharing among students of tertiary institutions on academic social networking sites. Data are quantitatively gathered from 218 respondents from tertiary institutions and statistically analyzed. The results suggest that perceived dialogue support and perceived social support have strong influences on knowledge sharing behaviour.

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Section: Persuasive Social Features and Knowledge Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Model and Hypothesis Formulationmentioning

confidence: 99%