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Analysis on the Influence Path of User Knowledge Withholding in Virtual Academic Community - Based on Structural
1School of Economics and Management, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China.
Knowledge withholding in virtual academic communities is driven by knowledge power, impacting psychological ownership. Community privacy and reciprocity significantly reduce this behavior, fostering better knowledge sharing.
Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Information Science
- Psychology
Background:
- Knowledge withholding impedes organizational development and innovation.
- Limited research integrates knowledge, individual, and environmental factors in virtual academic communities.
- Understanding knowledge withholding drivers is crucial for improving online collaboration.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate factors influencing knowledge withholding in virtual academic communities.
- To explore the mediating role of psychological ownership.
- To analyze enabling and inhibiting factors on knowledge withholding behavior.
Main Methods:
- Data collected from 616 users in a Chinese virtual academic community.
- Employed structural equation modeling (SEM) and a cross-layer connected neural network (ANN).
- Empirical analysis of hypothesized relationships between knowledge, individual, and environmental factors.
Main Results:
- Knowledge power significantly increases psychological ownership, leading to knowledge withholding.
- Professional commitment did not show a significant effect on psychological ownership.
- Combined effects of community privacy and reciprocity significantly inhibit knowledge withholding.
Conclusions:
- Knowledge power is a key driver of knowledge withholding via psychological ownership in virtual academic communities.
- Community-level factors like privacy and reciprocity are effective in mitigating knowledge withholding.
- Findings offer guidance for enhancing knowledge sharing and academic atmosphere in online communities.
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