Social Q&A communities: A multi-factor study of the influence of users' knowledge sharing behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Recently, social Q&A communities have grown increasingly popular, serving as a primary platform for people to learn and share information. Nonetheless, fewer knowledge producers in these communities are significant than knowledge consumers. Thus, promoting users' participation in knowledge sharing is a challenge for managers of social Q&A communities. Even though many scholars have studied factors influencing willingness to share knowledge, they tend to start with one theory and ignore the impact of several factors on behaviors. Thus, this manuscript presents a multi-factor model based on three dimensions of technology, cognition, and security to explore the effects of the six factors of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms, perc

SUBMITTER: Wen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9556872 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature