• 지능정보연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.19-38
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• 2014

본 연구는 지식경영연구에서 비교적 적은 관심을 받아온 지식탐색행동인 지식브라우징(knowledge browsing)과 지식검색 (knowledge seeking)의 역할을 가상공동체 환경에서 조사하였다. 지식탐색행동이 가상공동체의식을 매개요인으로 지식공유의도와 가상공동체홍보에 양의 영향을 끼치는 선행요인으로 고려되었다. 연구가설들은 한 가상공동체의 회원들을 대상으로 한 설문조사를 기반으로 구조방정식모델을 사용하여 검증한 결과, 능동적 지식탐색행동은 가상공동체의식에 양의 관계를 보였고, 가상공동체의식은 지식공유의도와 공동체홍보에 양의 관계를 보였다. 실무자들은 본 연구를 통해 회원들의 지식탐색행동이 가상공동체의식을 함양하는 효과가 있고 결국, 지식공유활성화와 가상공동체 홍보로 이어질 수 있음을 이해할 수 있다. 따라서, 이러한 지식탐색행동을 보다 효과적으로 도울 수 있는 방안을 마련함으로써, 회원들이 가상공동체로부터 지식을 얻고, 다시 지식을 가상공동체에 공유하고 다른 사람들에게 공동체를 홍보하게 되는 가상공동체의 선순환적 발전을 꾀할 수 있다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.71-86
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• 2014

This study investigated knowledge browsing behavior as the factor affecting the increase of knowledge sharing intention. To conduct this study in the specific context of knowledge seeking and sharing behavior of virtual community members, literature on knowledge seeking behavior, meta-knowledge, and knowledge sharing intention was reviewed. Structural Equation Modeling was conducted to analyze survey data to test the research model of this study. The result showed that knowledge browsing have positive effects on creating of virtual community members' subject knowledge and meta-knowledge, which, in turn, affected positively their knowledge sharing intention. One of the main contributions of this study is that knowledge seeking behavior influence one's knowledge sharing intention in a virtual community. Organization managers should consider knowledge seeking behavior as not only a self-interested, consuming activity, but also a productive one through its function of constructing subject knowledge and meta-knowledge.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.41-72
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• 2019

Purpose Virtual communities (VCs) are becoming ever more important in these days, sometimes more than offline communities. Notably, they have become significant sources of knowledge sharing. Therefore, in order to foster a VC, it is very important to understand why people share their knowledge in the VC. Under this background, this paper aims at proposing the behavioral model best explains knowledge sharing activities in VCs. Design/methodology/approach We basically design our behavioral model for knowledge sharing in VCs based on theory of reasoned action (TRA). However, to understand knowledge sharing in VCs better, we specify knowledge sharing by dividing it into knowledge contribution and knowledge use. Also, instead of 'subjective norm', we adopt 'sense of virtual community (SOVC)' as a main social factor, which has been found to be important in the literature. We also include the antecedents such as 'quality of the shared knowledge', 'trust in community members', 'passion of the community leader', 'reciprocity', and 'self efficacy', which affect VC users' attitude towards knowledge sharing and SOVC. To test the hypotheses in our proposed model, we collected 253 valid surveys from the VC users. Structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS 23 is employed to assess the relationships proposed as the hypotheses. Findings Major findings are as follows. SOVC positively affects both intention to contribute knowledge and intention to use knowledge. And, trust in community members positively affects the attitude towards knowledge use and SOVC. The attitude towards knowledge use is also affected by the quality of the shared knowledge. Reciprocity is found to strongly positively affect the attitude towards knowledge contribution. However, passion of the community leader and self efficacy are found to have insignificant effect on SOVC and the attitude towards knowledge contribution respectively. Our study sheds a light on how to foster VCs from the perspective of knowledge management.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.119-129
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• 2013

The degree to which people share knowledge has major impacts on the effectiveness of virtual community of practice (VCoP). As an extension to the previous study which investigated the effect of individual cooperative types (cooperator, reciprocator, and free rider) on knowledge sharing, it is investigated how much increase in the degree of cooperation will enhance knowledge sharing when there are more knowledge contributors and strong ties exist across the community. Simulation method is adopted to measure the effect of the cooperative type and tie strength on knowledge sharing. The results reveal that the tie strength positively affects knowledge contribution in VCoP and strongly tied VCoP generates equivalent level of knowledge contribution as that of weakly-tied VCoP with 5% more contributors.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.38-53
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• 2008

본 연구는 가상 커뮤니티에서 지식공유 행동에 영향을 미치는 동기부여 요인을 파악하는데 목적을 두고 있다. 이를 위해 사회적 인지 이론의 자기효능감, 커뮤니티 관련 기대성과 요인과 사회적 교환이론의 부호화 노력, 이미지, 상호호혜성, 타인을 돕는 즐거움요인을 통합하여 연구모델을 제안하였다. 246개의 자료를 수집하였으며, 단순회귀분석과 다중회귀분석을 사용하여 통계분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 자기효능감은 이미지, 상호호혜성, 타인을 돕는 즐거움, 커뮤니티 관련 기대성과에 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 따라서 자기효능감은 지식공유 행동에 간접적인 영향이 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 지식공유 행동의 선행 요인 중 부호화노력, 타인을 돕는 즐거움, 커뮤니티 관련 기대성과는 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나 이미지와 상호호혜성은 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 검증 결과는 향후 가상커뮤니티를 활성화시키기 위한 지식공유와 관련하여 전략적 시사점을 도출하였다.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.95-118
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• 2009

온라인 공간에서의 정보 및 지식에 대한 공유활동은 매우 활발하기 진행되고 있으며, 많은 인터넷 이용자들이 자신이 필요한 정보나 지식을 카페, 블로그 등과 같은 온라인 전자공간에서 공유하며 이용하고 있다. 온라인 전자공간에서 자신이 필요한 정보나 지식을 공유하는 공간으로 사용되는 가상커뮤니티는 이용자간 온라인 커뮤니케이션 수단으로 사용될 뿐만 아니라 가상공간을 이용한 정보 및 지식공유의 장으로서 매우 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 국내의 경우 다음, 네이버, 파란, 네이트 등 중요 포털사이트들은 사용자들의 편의제공목적은 물론이고, 주요 포털 사이트 이용자들이 가지고 있는 각종 정보 및 지식공유를 위한 수단으로 가상 커뮤니티를 이용하고 있으며, 실제로 많은 인터넷 이용자들이 자신의 관심사나 관심분야와 관련한 가상커뮤니티를 통해 많은 정보와 지식을 공유하고 있다. 가상 커뮤니티의 성공적 운영을 위한 연구들이 수행되어오고 있지만, 보다 세밀한 연구수행이 필요한 시점이며, 이에 본 연구에서는 가상 커뮤니티 이용자들이 지각한 특성들이 이용자 태도, 커뮤니티 신뢰, 만족을 경유하여 충성도에 미치는 영향력 과정을 여러 선행연구로부터 도출하고, 이를 실증적으로 검증하였다. 그 결과 가상커뮤니티 유용성과 편리성 그리고 친숙성이 이용자 태도를 경유하여 만족과 충성도에 유의적인 영향을 미친다는 점을 확인하였으며, 구성원 신뢰와 커뮤니티 명성이 커뮤니티에 대한 신뢰, 만족, 충성도에 각각 유의적인 영향을 미친다는 점을 확인하였다. 이러한 본 연구의 결과는 추후 가상커뮤니티를 운영하는 기업의 전략수립에 많은 도움이 될 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.19-45
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• 2010

Virtual Communities, which are formed on the Internet, are expected to serve the needs of members for e-collaboration, e-communication, information and knowledge sharing. The executives of organizations should consider virtual community as a new innovation or knowledge pool since members share knowledge. However, many virtual community have failed due to members' low willingness to engage and furthermore to share knowledge with other members. Thus, there is a need to understand and foster the determinants of members' sense of belonging behavior in virtual community. This study develops an integrated model designed to investigate and explain the relationships between contextual factors, personal perceptions of virtual community, usability, trust and sense of belonging in using a certain virtual community. Empirical data was collected from 201 and tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) to verify the fit of the hypothetical model. The results show that the perceived usability and community trust of members significantly influences sense of belonging in using the virtual community, and information quality, system quality, familiarity on the virtual community are significantly influence the usability but not reputation. And I confirmed that perceived shared vision and responsiveness play the role of determinants in making the member's trust, perceived risk influence the making community trust in directly. The results of the study can be used to identify the motivation underlying members' sense of belonging in a certain virtual community by investigating the impacts of contextual factors and personal perceptions on virtual community, the integrated model better explains behavior than other proposed models. This study might help executives of virtual communities and organizations to manage and promote these determinants of sense of belonging to stimulate members' willingness to engage the community and futhermore enhance their virtual community loyalty.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.63-82
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• 2009

Virtual community is a social aggregation to attain some goals in an IT-supported virtual space (Lee et al., 2002). As lots of virtual communities generate robust and reliable outputs with low control and low incentive, previous researchers was interested in the questions, "why do they participate?" or "how are they controlled?". But. as Katz (1964) said, the most important part of the high-performing organization is the behaviors of members in the organization. Therefore, this research is to examine the relationship between the performance and the behaviors of participants in the virtual community. First, we propose 6 types of behaviors related to high performance in the virtual community: 'Continuous Attendance', 'Complying with the organizational value, policies, and regulations', 'Protection', 'Suggestion for the improving', 'Self-training', and 'Favorable behavior'. The six types of behaviors are extracted from the framework of Katz (1964) and Brief and Motowidlo (1986). The reason why each behavior is positively related with high-performance is that those who continuously attend have more responsibility than temporary participants do; complying with the rules of a virtual community means that they may make more reliable outcome; 'Protection' is one of the prosocial-behaviors and those who protect the community may concern the benefit of the virtual community when they participate: those who suggest some ideas for improvement may contribute to the virtual community; 'Self-training' behavior means that participants really want to have high quality in their contribution: those who have 'Favorable attitude' consider other members in the virtual community when they participate. Then, we perform an empirical analysis with the survey from participants in the Knowledge service of Naver.com, to show those behaviors are associated with the high-performance. To make the measurement for the six behaviors, we use CVR (content validity ratio) method (Lawshe, 1975), interviewing 12 experts. The dependent variable, performance of participation, is measured by 'ratio of selected answer' given by the Naver.com. We use email survey. We sent 1200 emails to randomly selected participants in the knowledge service and received 282 responses. The results of our empirical analysis show that 4('Continuous Attendance', 'Suggestion for the improving', 'Self-training', 'Favorable attitude') are positively related to the performance, but 2('Complying with the organizational value, policies, and regulations' and 'Protection') are not significant. In line with Fitzgerald (2006), we expect that participants in the virtual community may behave similarly to employees in the off-line firms for the high performance. But 2 behaviors have different results. The reason that the 'Complying with the organizational value' behavior is not sufficiently related to performance is that the motivation of participants is more related to intrinsic pleasure or altruism than external reward. Also, the 'Protection' behavior has no significant relationship with performance, which means that the high-performing participants have little concern about the problems in the community.

• 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.647-658
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• 2018

현대사회는 복잡하고 빠르게 변화하고 있고, 지식을 습득하고 창출하기 위해 지식 공유가 필요하다. 지식공유는 동료들과 협력하거나 이들을 돕기 위해 자신의 정보 지식, 노하우를 제공하는 행동이다. 본 연구는 가상커뮤니티 구성원의 모바일 지식공유행위를 설명하기 위해 사회적 자본이론을 이용하여 연구모형을 제시했다. 선행연구를 기반으로 사회적 자본이론을 구조적, 관계적 그리고 인지적 측면으로 구분하였다. 구조적 측면의 척도로 사회적 유대, 인지적 측면의 척도로 공유 언어와 공유비전, 그리고 관계적 측면의 척도로 신뢰로 구성했다. 설문 자료를 수집한 후 SPSS 22를 이용하여 요인분석과 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 사회적 자본의 세부 요인이 정보 공유 행위에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지, 그리고 지식공유의 정도가 커뮤니티 촉진에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 실증 분석하였다. 분석 결과 사회적 유대 관계, 공유된 언어, 공유된 비전, 신뢰가 지식 공유에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 지식 공유는 커뮤니티 촉진에 긍정적 영향을 끼쳤다.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.153-180
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• 2009

The previous researches about knowledge sharing were proceeded in terms of KMS (Knowledge Management System) in center. However, knowledge sharing is recently applied to Internet space, which is open to every users, as well as KMS, which is qualified for restricted people. For example, some portal sites, such as Naver, the most popular portal in Korea, have virtual spaces to share users' knowledges and it is common that many users use the spaces. Knowledge sharing online, compared with KMS, will be more advanced to promote intention for knowledge sharing because of the character of Internet space that is open to all users. Nevertheless, there are few researches about knowledge sharing in the Internet. Considering this situation, this study is attempted to figure out the factors to promote Internet knowledge sharing, based on social capital theory and self-expression concept. A survey of experienced Internet user and PLS (Partial Least Square) were utilized for analysis. The test of this study reveals that social capital and self-expression are significant factors to influence knowledge sharing intention, and that also personal innovation and self-efficacy are significantly related to the self-expression. However, personal innovation does not have significant impact on social capital. According to the result, self-expression, as well as trust and system itself, has significantly effect on knowledge sharing intention in order to promote knowledge sharing in the Internet.