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Impact of Intrinsic Motivators on Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Environments: Implications for Workplace Information Literacy and Collaborative Practices

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Information Literacy in Everyday Life (ECIL 2018)

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Although collaboration is considered as one of the most critical workplace skills, simply putting workers together into teams does not guarantee increased levels of collaboration and knowledge sharing. This exploratory study examines 169 LIS students’ perceptions of the quality of knowledge creation in virtual teams across seven blended courses in 2011. The perceived quality of knowledge creation was measured and divided into three levels for analysis: enhanced, moderate and baseline. The findings indicate the critical role of intrinsic motivators, including trust, peer influence, and personal outcome expectations in facilitating knowledge sharing and enhancing knowledge creation. The implications of this study could possibly be further extrapolated in developing workplace information literacy instructions about collaborative practices across a variety of organizations.

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  1. Division of Library and Information Science, St. John’s University, New York City, NY, USA

    Rajesh Singh

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. Department of Information and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Maija Leena Huotari

  6. Department of Information Studies , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  7. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  8. School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Singh, R. (2019). Impact of Intrinsic Motivators on Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Environments: Implications for Workplace Information Literacy and Collaborative Practices. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy in Everyday Life. ECIL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_20

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