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Business
Nan Wang, Liya Wang, Zhenzhong Ma, Shouyang Wang
Summary: This study examines the relationship between knowledge seeking and knowledge contribution in online communities, and proposes that knowledge seeking leads to knowledge contribution through the accumulation of social capital. Empirical evidence from the Zhihu Community in China supports this model, showing that users' knowledge seeking behaviors have a positive impact on their social capital, which further influences their knowledge contribution behaviors.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xiu-Fu Tian, Run-Ze Wu
Summary: This research examines factors influencing users' participation in online health communities (OHCs) based on the social capital theory. The study found that informational support and emotional support have direct effects on the structural capital, relational capital, and cognitive capital of OHCs. It also observed that relational capital and cognitive capital degree significantly influence knowledge acquisition and knowledge contribution in OHCs.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Business
Chenglong Li, Hongxiu Li, Reima Suomi, Yong Liu
Summary: The study reveals that structural capital (social ties) and relational capital (reciprocity) are significant motivators for knowledge sharing in smoking cessation OHCs. Additionally, there is a moderating effect of the stage in quitting on the relationship between antecedents and knowledge sharing in these OHCs.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tal Eitan, Tali Gazit
Summary: Understanding the leadership of online support groups is important in support groups research. This paper analyzes the behavior of Facebook support group leaders, exploring the application of an existing leadership model used in offline support groups. The findings show that Facebook support group leaders commonly use management behavior and support behavior, while use-of-self behavior and evoke-stimulate behavior are less common.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Yuqi Lei, Songhua Xu, Linyun Zhou
Summary: This study systematically analyzed the user-generated content and associated behaviors in two popular online health communities in China. The findings indicated distinct distribution patterns in user activities, higher activity levels on weekdays, and shared hot topics among the three disease forums. Leveraging such information can provide valuable insights for improving healthcare delivery and situational awareness.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Christine Moser, Dirk Deichmann
Summary: Online communities are key platforms for innovation and knowledge sharing, with social capital and cultural factors playing important roles in online knowledge sharing. The influence of national culture on the relationship between social capital and perceived knowledge quality has been found to differ, highlighting the importance of considering cultural differences in managing online communities.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kyungmee Park, Sukkyung You
Summary: The study found that political efficacy has a significant impact on online political engagement across different generational cohorts, and offline community activities also have a significant influence on offline political engagement.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Business
Chunjia Han, Mu Yang
Summary: By collecting a large-scale dataset and conducting an empirical study, this article reveals that idea contribution experience, comment diversity, and user's innovation capability have significant impacts on the popularity of ideas in online innovation communities. These findings provide valuable insights for firms to incentivize users for more effective and efficient social product development.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Engineering, Industrial
Laura S. Fruhen, Daniela M. Andrei, Mark A. Griffin
Summary: This study examines the relationship between leadership behaviors and employee safety behaviors, finding that employee attributions of leaders' safety commitment are related to employee safety behaviors, and the impact of leadership behaviors is influenced by different attributions of leaders' safety commitment. The results provide insights for safety leadership training and development.
Article
Business
Chencheng Shi, Ping Hu, Weiguo Fan, Liangfei Qiu
Summary: This study examines the impact of peer influence on the informativeness of knowledge contributions in competitive settings. The findings demonstrate that when more prior knowledge contributors choose to provide detailed answers in the same question thread, the subsequent contributions are more informative. This peer influence is stronger for factual questions and questions with higher popularity of answering but weaker in recommendation-type and well-answered questions and for contributors with higher social status.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mian Lv, Yongbo Sun, Binbin Shi
Summary: This paper investigates the influence of introversion-extraversion personality traits on the knowledge-sharing intention of online health communities (OHCs) using personality trait theory and social capital theory. The study compares and analyses the knowledge-sharing paths of two types of users, doctors and patients, in OHCs. The results show that extraversion personality, interaction, and reciprocity positively influence the physicians' and patients' knowledge-sharing intention. The study enriches the theory of user knowledge-sharing in OHCs and advances managers' understanding of user motivation.
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Business
Lin Jia, Chen Lin, Yiran Qin, Xiaowen Pan, Zhongyun Zhou
Summary: This study focuses on users' knowledge-sharing intentions in Q&A communities from the perspective of social. Specifically, we separated social functions in Q&A platforms into monetary and non-monetary ones and explored their impact on the development of short-term and long-term relationships. Results demonstrate the importance of monetary social functions and explain how monetary and non-monetary social functions affect users' knowledge-sharing intentions in different approaches.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Xuecong Lu, Jinglu Jiang, Milena Head, Junyi Yang
Summary: This study examines the influence of knowledge adding (KA) and knowledge shaping (KS) on online leadership in Q&A communities. By analyzing the posting history of members from StackExchange, the study finds that the readability and lexical diversity of KA have a more positive impact on online leadership, while the sentiment of KS has a stronger positive impact. The study highlights the importance of adjusting linguistic styles based on different communication behaviors to earn leadership.
INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Juliana Guedes Almeida, Deanne N. Den Hartog, Annebel H. B. De Hoogh, Vithor Rosa Franco, Juliana Barreiros Porto
Summary: The research mainly focuses on unethical leadership, proposing a model of four types of harmful leader behavior and developing a new survey instrument to measure them. The study finds that harmful leader behavior is negatively related to constructive leadership forms and positively related to unethical ones, as well as being related to job satisfaction and engagement.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Heng Luo, Xu Han, Ying Chen, Yanjiao Nie
Summary: This study investigated the impact of assigned leadership in online collaborative learning and found differences in participating behaviors between assigned leaders and group members. However, the impact of assigned leadership on learning outcomes and perceptions was not significant. Student leaders' academic achievement had little impact on group members' learning behaviors and outcomes, and the influence of leader behaviors on group performance was mixed.
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Health Policy & Services
Hani Safadi, David Chan, Martin Dawes, Mark Roper, Samer Faraj
HEALTH POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY
(2015)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Abdullah Kashgary, Roaa Alsolaimani, Mahmoud Mosli, Samer Faraj
JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE
(2017)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Paul M. Di Gangi, Molly Wasko
JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND END USER COMPUTING
(2016)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Srinivas Kudaravalli, Samer Faraj, Steven L. Johnson
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Business
Paolo Leone, Saku Mantere, Samer Faraj
Summary: This study investigates how open theorizing contributes to theory development in management and organization studies, emphasizing the importance of sharing data, research materials, and theoretical concepts among researchers. It also discusses the potential benefits and challenges of open theorizing, highlighting its impact on theoretical vocabularies and promoting free criticism and diversity in social epistemological principles.
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Management
Diane E. Bailey, Samer Faraj, Pamela J. Hinds, Paul M. Leonardi, Georg von Krogh
Summary: This article introduces the impact of emerging technologies on organizations and proposes a relational perspective to understand the relationship between emerging technologies and organizing. By viewing emerging technologies as a set of evolving relations, we provide a new approach for organizational scholars to study the role of technology in organizations.
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
(2022)
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Business
Samer Faraj, Paul M. Leonardi
Summary: This article discusses the concept and role of technology in the digital age, and proposes a relational perspective on technology to address the problems of existing conceptualization. Additionally, it highlights the potential benefits of applying this perspective to theories of strategic organization.
STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Management
Hani Safadi, Steven L. Johnson, Samer Faraj
Summary: Research shows that valuable knowledge contributions in online innovation communities can come from both socially embedded participants and epistemically marginal participants. Those with high social embeddedness among the epistemically marginal participants are more likely to provide contributions valued by the community, as they can offer novel ideas while effectively communicating them to the community. The production of knowledge in online innovation communities involves a complex interaction between novelty from the epistemic periphery and social embeddedness to align with existing norms.
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Samer Faraj, Wadih Renno, Anand Bhardwaj
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as a natural breaching experiment that has challenged taken-for-granted expectations about digitalization and revealed issues regarding uneven access to digital infrastructures, the persistence of analog in digitalization, the brittleness of unchecked digitalization, and panoptical surveillance.
INFORMATION AND ORGANIZATION
(2021)
Article
Management
Stella Pachidi, Hans Berends, Samer Faraj, Marleen Huysman
Summary: By engaging in symbolic conformity and advocacy, employees and technologists inadvertently brought about a radical change in the sales regime of knowing, shifting it from customer understanding through personal contact to model predictions based on processing large datasets.
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
(2021)
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Business
Alaric Bourgoin, Nicolas Bencherki, Samer Faraj
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2020)
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Management
Anastasia Sergeeva, Samer Faraj, Marleen Huysman
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
(2020)
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Information Science & Library Science
Samer Faraj, Stella Pachidi, Karla Sayegh
INFORMATION AND ORGANIZATION
(2018)
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Management
Jan-Kees Schakel, Paul C. van Fenema, Samer Faraj
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
(2016)
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Business
Fouad Zablith, Samer Faraj, Bijan Azad
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2016)
