Predicting knowledge sharing by professional architects in architectural firms in Ibadan, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 749-766
Author(s):  
Damilola Olanrewaju Lasode ◽  
Kemi Ogunsola
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Architectural Firms

This study investigated the factors predicting knowledge sharing among architects in architectural firms in Ibadan metropolis, southwestern Nigeria. The study provided insight into the validity of social exchange theory, social capital theory and technological factors for studying and explaining knowledge sharing among professional architects in architectural firms. Survey research design was adopted for the study. A field survey of 104 architects was carried out using a questionnaire for data collection. Convenience and snowball sampling techniques were used to select the respondents for the study. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression. Findings revealed that significant predictors of knowledge sharing were enjoyment in helping others, social interaction, social identification, shared language/vision and loss of knowledge power. The level of information and communication technology (ICT) usage was also found to significantly predict knowledge sharing among architects. However, the results indicated that organisational rewards and trust do not significantly predict knowledge sharing among architects. The results also showed that loss of knowledge power negatively affected knowledge sharing, suggesting a tendency to hoard knowledge. Based on these research findings, recommendations were therefore made.

scholarly journals Fund-Raising Management of Chinese University Foundations from the Perspective of Alumni Donation Willingness: A Case of Universities in Hennan Provice

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Qiuyang Bai ◽  
Manoch Prompanyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
School Funding ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Willingness To Donate

This article reviews the research results of a large number of Chinese and foreign scholars, and combines social identification theory, social exchange theory, social capital theory, stakeholder theory, and principal-agent theory to build a model of individual donation willingness in Chinese universities. The questionnaire was designed, and after collecting and analyzing the data, the hypothesis was verified, and the regression relationship between willingness to donate and different motivations was obtained through response analysis. In addition, this article takes alumni identity as an intermediary variable, and studies the interaction between donation motivation, alumni identity, and willingness to donate. Based on the above research, this article concludes that there is a strong correlation between the motivation and willingness of individuals to donate to universities. Among them, reputation motivation, social responsibility realization, consolidate the relationship, tax incentives, and warm motivation have a significant effect on the willingness to donate. In addition, there is a strong correlation between alumni identity and willingness to donate. It is believed that these research conclusions can enable universities to recognize the purpose of individual donations, and to raise funds more effectively and reasonably for these motivations, thereby expanding the source of school funding and achieving sustainable development of the school.

scholarly journals Social Capital Theory, Social Exchange Theory, Social Cognitive Theory, Financial Literacy, and the Role of Knowledge Sharing as a Moderator in Enhancing Financial Well-Being: From Bibliometric Analysis to a Conceptual Framework Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asha Thomas ◽  
Vikas Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Exchange Theory ◽  
Capital Theory

A person’s financial well-being (FWB) is the complete contentment gained from one’s present financial condition. This has a powerful impact on the entire achievement of an employee’s “well-being.” Researchers, financial analysts, financial planners, educationists, and economists have explored the “enablers” to improve employees’ living standards by investigating the possible “FWB” resources for decades. There is no literature available to show the connection between social capital theory, social exchange theory (SET), social cognitive theory (SCT), financial literacy and FWB, and employees’ financial knowledge sharing a moderator to expand the complete FWB.

scholarly journals Islamic excellence achievement spirit: a strategy to drive knowledge sharing behaviour and adaptive selling capability

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Ken Sudarti ◽  
Wasitowati Wasitowati
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Adaptive Selling ◽  
Knowledge Sharing Behavior ◽  
Antecedent Variable ◽  
Sharing Behavior ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Do So

Knowledge sharing is still becoming a concern for many researchers because of the various positive impacts encountered. However, many individuals are still hesitant to do so, especially in a competitive environment where 'knowledge is power'. Knowledge sharing is often conducted only for the purpose of self-imaging and mutual benefits. Various studies that try to explore the antecedent variable of knowledge sharing behavior rarely use an Islamic motivational perspective. Hence, this article offers a new concept of Islamic excellence achievement spirit which is expected to be a cornerstone to improve knowledge sharing behavior. This new concept is the result of synthesis from the need for achievement theory, social capital theory, and Islamic values. The 291 sharia insurance employees in Indonesia were used as respondents of this study. Respondents obtained by using snowball sampling combined with purposive sampling. Regression analysis is used to test the empirical research model. The results show that Islamic excellence achievement spirit is proven to be able to increase knowledge sharing behavior that has an impact on increasing adaptive selling capability.

scholarly journals Understanding the Potential Influence of WeChat Engagement on Bonding Capital, Bridging Capital and Electronic Word-of-Mouth Intention

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8489
Author(s):  
Hua Pang ◽  
Jingying Wang ◽  
Xiang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Electronic Word Of Mouth ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Capital

As the most prevalent social media platform in mainland China, WeChat enables interpersonal communication among users and serves as an innovative marketing platform for enterprises to interact with consumers. Although numerous studies have investigated the antecedents of electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM), WeChat users’ specific behaviors still receive limited academic attention. Drawing from social capital theory and social exchange theory, this article develops a model to systematically explore three differentiated types of WeChat behaviors and their association with users’ social capital and e-WOM intention. The conceptual model is explicitly evaluated by utilizing web-based data gathered from 271 young people. Obtained results demonstrate the path effects indicating that: (1) WeChat use behaviors such as seeking, sharing, and liking can positively influence bonding social capital, while only the impacts of sharing and liking on bridging social capital are significant; (2) bonding and bridging social capital are both significant predictors of e-WOM intention, and bonding social capital is the more influential of the two; (3) bonding social capital partially mediates the effect of seeking on e-WOM intention. These findings are eloquent for researchers and operators to further grasp the increasing importance of WeChat adoption and social capital on young generations’ e-WOM intention in the evolving digital age.

Male Partners’ Investment and Alternatives as Correlates of Women’s Coerced First Sexual Intercourse in Chinese Dating Relationships: A Social Exchange Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-199
Author(s):  
Shanshan He ◽  
Sandra Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Male Partners ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Dating Relationships ◽  
Sexual Interaction ◽  
First Sexual Intercourse

Social exchange theory has great potential to help our understanding of dating partners’ sexual interaction. Yet, to our knowledge, there is still no empirical study applying this theory to explain sexual coercion in the context of intimate relationships. This study examined the relationship between male partners’ social exchange variables (investment and alternatives) and women’s coerced first sexual intercourse in dating relationships, within both gender samples (not dyadic data). A total of 927 valid questionnaires were collected by purposive snowball sampling in five main cities in China of college students who were currently in a romantic relationship. Results showed that in the male sample, male partners’ investment significantly and positively correlated with emotional manipulation coercive tactics, and their alternatives significantly and positively predicted defection threats as coercive tactics. In the female sample, there were no such observations. The research hypotheses of this study have been partially supported, and its implications and limitations are discussed.

Analysing the Effect of Value in Online Communities on Satisfaction in Online Socialisation and Knowledge-Sharing Intentions of Eco-Tourist

2017 ◽  
pp. 35-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudipta Kiran Sarkar ◽  
Norman Au ◽  
Rob Law
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Exchange Theory ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Order Factor

This study, which is based on social exchange theory (SET), focuses on the capacities of social media to provide such means by examining the effect of value in online communities (VOC) in social media platforms on satisfying ecotourists' online socialisation and knowledge sharing. Based on the data obtained from 543 ecotourists and analysed by structural equation modelling (SEM), the results of this study confirmed that VOC, which embeds the SET factors of cooperation, reputation, trust and altruism, significantly influenced ecotourists' satisfaction in socialisation and knowledge-sharing intentions through social media. Furthermore, VOC served as a higher-/second-order factor reflected by the indicators of cooperation, reputation, trust and altruism. Finally, ecotourists' satisfaction in socialisation exerted a significant mediating effect between VOC and knowledge sharing.

scholarly journals Understanding the Impact of Opinion Leaders’ Characteristics on Online Group Knowledge-Sharing Engagement from In-Group and Out-Group Perspectives: Evidence from a Chinese Online Knowledge-Sharing Community

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4461
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Liu ◽  
Zhenping Zhang ◽  
Jiayin Qi ◽  
Hong Wu ◽  
Manyi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
New Members ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Online Groups ◽  
Group Knowledge ◽  
Log Linear ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Online Group

Opinion leaders often play key roles in online knowledge-sharing communities, which has intrigued a lot of researchers and practitioners worldwide. However, it is not clear how various characteristics of opinion leaders may affect different online groups’ knowledge-sharing engagement. This paper aims to answer this question by building upon social capital theory to examine the differential influences of opinion leaders’ characteristics (interactivity, authority, and activity) on online groups. In-groups and out-groups were distinguished, and the study used the context of an investment-oriented online knowledge-sharing community. By leveraging a unique aggregated group-level secondhand dataset collected from Snowball.com, we conducted log-linear and Poisson regression models. The results revealed that the intensity of online group knowledge-sharing engagement was heavily contingent upon the types of characteristics of opinion leaders. We found that in-group knowledge-sharing engagement (generating new knowledge) was driven by an opinion leader’s interactivity and authority, whereas out-group knowledge-sharing engagement (developing new members) could not be facilitated by these types of characteristics. Instead, the opinion leader’s activity hindered out-group users from joining in-groups. The study also identified a “mutual promotion” issue, which was generated from the association between in-group and out-group knowledge-sharing engagement.

The effect of leader competencies on knowledge sharing and job performance: Social capital theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 88-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Swanson ◽  
Sally Kim ◽  
Sae-Mi Lee ◽  
Jae-Jang Yang ◽  
Yong-Ki Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Capital Theory
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