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Identifying Influential Factors of Knowledge Sharing in Emergency Events: A Virtual Community Perspective

  • Beihang University
  • Old Dominion University

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Abstract

Knowledge sharing on emergency events in virtual communities is a significant information source for emergency management. Based on social cognitive theory and social capital theory as well as the consideration of the characteristics of emergency events, we employ a survey questionnaire for the empirical study and adopt the two-stage confirmatory factor analysis method to construct a structural equation model for identifying the influential factors in knowledge sharing in emergencies. Through conducting a detailed data analysis, our study reveals that that some emergency event characteristics have significant effects on both the quality and quantity of knowledge sharing.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)367-382
Number of pages16
JournalSystems Research and Behavioral Science
Volume30
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2013

Keywords

  • Confirmatory factor analysis
  • Emergency events
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Structural equation modeling
  • Virtual community

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