TY - GEN
T1 - An exploratory study of bloggers' information sharing behavior
T2 - 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008
AU - Chai, Sangmi
AU - Das, Sanjukta
AU - Rao, H. R.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Social networking websites have become very popular with Internet users as one of the latest forms of online communication tools. Blogs, recurrently updated web pages with a series of archived postings in social network websites have been discussed as a useful information sharing platform for knowledge management in a collaborative work environment. However, blogs generate growing concerns regarding information privacy issues. This study, based on social capital theory, presents exploratory results about bloggers' information sharing behavior. The survey results indicate that trust which has four second order factors: economy based trust, trust in reciprocity, trust in other bloggers and trust in social interaction positively affects bloggers' information sharing behavior. However, online information privacy concerns have a negative impact on the relationship between trust and bloggers' information sharing behavior.
AB - Social networking websites have become very popular with Internet users as one of the latest forms of online communication tools. Blogs, recurrently updated web pages with a series of archived postings in social network websites have been discussed as a useful information sharing platform for knowledge management in a collaborative work environment. However, blogs generate growing concerns regarding information privacy issues. This study, based on social capital theory, presents exploratory results about bloggers' information sharing behavior. The survey results indicate that trust which has four second order factors: economy based trust, trust in reciprocity, trust in other bloggers and trust in social interaction positively affects bloggers' information sharing behavior. However, online information privacy concerns have a negative impact on the relationship between trust and bloggers' information sharing behavior.
KW - Blog
KW - Information sharing behavior
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Moderating effect
KW - Online privacy concerns
KW - Social capital theory
KW - Trust
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870309022&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870309022
SN - 9781605609539
T3 - 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008
SP - 1877
EP - 1884
BT - 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008
Y2 - 14 August 2008 through 17 August 2008
ER -