Impact of learning culture and information technology use on knowledge sharing of Saudi students

Eid, Mustafa Mahmood; Nuhu, Nuraddeen Abubakar

doi:10.1057/kmrp.2010.25

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“…Knowledge is not only the most important resource in the organisation but is a primary source of competitive advantage. Knowledge is an important element in maintaining the sustainability and success of any private or public organisation [31]. The use of ICT and the learning culture are significant variables that affect knowledge sharing in higher institutions [31].…”

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The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

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Purpose: This paper studies organisational and personal factors affecting the behaviour of academic staff in Saudi universities. It seeks to investigate the beliefs of academic staff regarding the use of ICT and other factors to enhance the productivity of their scientific research. Also, this study aims to improve the sustainability of publication in Saudi universities. ICT includes using the library system for accessing research repository databases such as Science Direct, Web of Science, Scopus, etc. and other factors. The authors also developed the Importance Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) for these factors in order to provide guidelines for Saudi universities to build university systems to manage and measure the research productivity of academic staff. In summary, this research identifies factors critical to enhancing research productivity in Saudi universities. This will help to improve the sustainability of publication in Saudi universities. By enhancing the sustainability of publication, the reputation of Saudi universities will be improved and the reputation of academic staff in Saudi universities. As well the sustainability of publication will assist the promote of Saudi academic staff. Approach: This paper analysed 200 papers related to the enhancement of research productivity from various research databases such as Science Direct, IEEE and Scopus. We included the usage of ICT in research analysis, university policy, university research funding and the number of publications published by academic staff. The authors used different databases and systematic literature reviews (SLR) to find the most important factors which could improve research productivity in universities. An online questionnaire answered by 375 academic staff from four developing Saudi universities that are Taif University, Taibah University, Jeddah University, Hail University-was used to determine the relationship between information technology factors and research performance together with other factors such as university policy, international collaboration, research funding and job satisfaction. In this study, we used SmartPLS v3 to analyse the results from the questionnaires. Findings: The results show that personal factors such as personal use of ICT and organisational factors such as job satisfaction, university policy, IT funding, international collaboration and the level of ICT use in the university have positive effects on scientific research productivity among academic staff at Saudi universities. Those results are based on the beliefs of academic staff regarding the use of information Sustainability 2019, 11, 4804 2 of 28 technology for research purposes and other factors. This paper finds that university policy recorded an importance of 0.523, job satisfaction was 0.224, international collaboration was 0.103, personal use of ICT was 0.102, the level of using ICT in the university was 0.074 and the importance of ICT funding was -0.156. Also, the results from SmartPLS show that university policy has a 0.215 effect size on res...

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The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

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“…The evolving stock of IC over time is dependent on how the knowledge within an organization is managed (Bontis et al, ; Lombardi, ; Zhu, ) and transformed through an elaborate form of learning (Fang, Hong, Bock, & Kim, ; Shariq, ; Shrestha et al, ). Thus, IC must comprise of a learning culture that facilitates knowledge stocks change both within an organization and between organizations and can be transformed over time (Eid & Nuhu, ; Salleh, Chong, Ahmad, & Ikhsan, ; Úbeda‐García, Claver‐Cortés, Marco‐Lajara, García‐Lillo, & Zaragoza‐Sáez, ).…”

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Belt‐and‐Road Initiative: Driving the need to understand intellectual capital in Chinese multinational enterprises

Kong

Wei

Swallow

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Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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China's Belt‐and‐Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most ambitious trade and development projects in history which intends to link Chinese multinational enterprises (CMNEs) to the Asian subcontinent, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe through two trade routes, land and sea. The project involves infrastructure development, human knowledge, and international relations to develop trade relationships. Increased competition along the two routes will see other governments taking initiatives to protect the business community in their nations; thus, adding barriers that must be overcome by CMNEs. The success of CMNEs in the BRI relies on the three components—structural, human, and relational—which are the three components of intellectual capital (IC). Through the use of IC CMNEs can assess their strengths and weaknesses. It will be the understanding of these strengths and weaknesses which will drive the success or failure of CMNEs.

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“…Agarwal, Lim, & Wigand, 2012), and the impact of ICT on learning cultures (e.g. Eid & Nuhu, 2011). This wider literature could have provided broader insight into the context in which the study took place and a better sociological awareness of the way that cultures act on the individual.…”

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“…On one hand, within a more quantitative / 'positivist' tradition researchers generally set out with implicit, or frequently explicit, hypotheses, 'theories' or conceptual frameworks -Eid & Nuhu (2011) provide an example in the context of higher education in Saudi Arabia, the setting reported in this paper. In interpretivist case study, on the other hand, and particularly within the grounded theory tradition, theorising emerges from the data.…”

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Theorising the take-up of ICT: can Valsiner’s three zones framework make a contribution?

Hammond

Alotaibi²

2016

Technology, Pedagogy and Education

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(2016) Theorising the take-up of ICT : can Valsiner's three zones framework make a contribution? Technology, Pedagogy and Education. Permanent WRAP URL:http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/71517 Copyright and reuse:The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the 'permanent WRAP URL' above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. THEORISING THE TAKE-UP OF ICT: CAN VALSINER'S THREE ZONES FRAMEWORK MAKE A CONTRIBUTION?This paper explores the contribution of theory to understanding the take-up of ICT and, in particular, it describes how Valsiner's three zones framework came to be used in a study of lecturers in Saudi higher education institutions. The paper describes the value of theory and, in the process, illustrates some of the approaches taken in the literature on teachers' use of ICT. The challenges faced in theorising are also covered. The paper thengives the background to a study of ICT use among university lecturers before moving to a discussion of methodology and presentation of key findings. Next, attention shifts to explaining key aspects of Valsiner's zones framework and showing how this framework was applied to explain the modest but differentiated use of ICT across eight institutions.Finally, the paper discusses the strengths and limitations of the zones framework and highlights some of the wider challenges which theorisation poses. WHY THEORISE?Theorising can cover a range of activity in social research but a common feature of most theory is an attempt to offer an explanation as to how and why social processes happen for example, may serve as an explanation as to why some teachers take up ICT but confidence comes from somewhere, and if, say, it is a consequence of a particular kind of enculturation, how was that culture constructed in the first place? Theories do not, and cannot, provide definitive answers, rather they provoke argument. They provide a way of seeing the world and are valuable for the lens they offer on social activity (e.g. teacher educators in the Netherlands). In these and other studies there is widespread agreement that teachers with r...

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Impact of learning culture and information technology use on knowledge sharing of Saudi students

Cited by 57 publications

References 51 publications

The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

Belt‐and‐Road Initiative: Driving the need to understand intellectual capital in Chinese multinational enterprises

Theorising the take-up of ICT: can Valsiner’s three zones framework make a contribution?

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