Contribution Behaviors in Distributed Environments

IT Use and the Interruption of NPD Knowledge Work

“…Second, discussions on the intrusive information requests can be stored in the repository along with the original information to minimize future intrusions. Third, better indexing and search technologies can be used to improve retrieval and reduce intrusions [27]. Fourth, IT can be used to control the timing of interruptions [15].…”

“…However, various factors stand in the way of such undertaking. Drawing on the literatures of knowledge integration [1,24], barriers to IT-enabled collaboration [4,25], and online knowledge contributions [26,27], we note that the dominant theoretical approach for examining impediments to IT-enabled knowledge integration focuses on behavioral and structural issues pertaining to the unwillingness or inability of knowledge workers using IT to collaborate and integrate their knowledge. Specifically, factors such as trust [4,25], social capital [3], social expectations [26], technical compatibility [4], a common knowledge framework [1], departmental thought worlds [24], and enabling organizational structures [4,24], have been identified.…”

The Role of User Psychological Contracts in the Sustainability of Social Networks.

“…First, we develop a novel theoretical lens through which we examine the sustainability of social networks. While prior research has largely focused on understanding participants' motives for sharing information on social networking platforms (Arazy & Gellatly, 2012;Olivera, Goodman, & Tan, 2008;Roberts, Hann, & Slaughter, 2006;Wasko & Faraj, 2005), we examine a different set of factors that may affect these platforms' sustainability. Specifically, our framework posits that expectancies in relation to intellectual property rights and privacy exist inherently in the psychological contract of social network users and that perceived breaches of these expectancies can have a detrimental effect on their relationship with the social network companies.…”

Evaluation of incentives for body area network-based healthcare systems

“…To this end, understanding why people participate in such research and accept to use the technology seems crucial and identification of incentives which have convinced people to participate in researches is indispensable. There are cognitive and motivational factors for people's participation and behavioural changes [13]. Some motivational theories have argued that participation maybe caused by sense of personal commitment to be good or it stems from an external obligation [14].…”