A context‐based investigation into source use by information seekers

NK Agarwal, Y Xu, DCC Poo - Journal of the American Society …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
An important question in information‐seeking behavior is where people go for information
and why information seekers prefer to use one source type rather than another when faced …

Dimensions of quality and accessibility: Selection of human information sources from a social capital perspective

L Woudstra, B van den Hooff, AP Schouten - Information Processing & …, 2012 - Elsevier
This study focuses on how the accessibility and quality of co-workers in organizations affect
their use as information source. Prior research has produced inconsistent findings …

The quality versus accessibility debate revisited: A contingency perspective on human information source selection

L Woudstra, B van den Hooff… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have not fully investigated the role of source accessibility versus source
quality in the selection of information sources. It remains unclear what their (relative) …

The role of social capital in selecting interpersonal information sources

JC Zimmer, RM Henry - Journal of the Association for …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Although the information‐seeking literature has tended to focus upon the selection and use
of inanimate objects as information sources, this research follows the more recent trend of …

Information source and its relationship with the context of information seeking behavior

NK Agarwal - Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Past studies on a person's choice of information sources have shown mixed results because
of a lack of understanding of the'context'surrounding information seeking that impacts a …

Towards a social network model for understanding information and communication technology use for general practitioners in rural Australia

KSK Chung, L Hossain - Computers in Human Behavior, 2010 - Elsevier
In this study, we develop a theoretical model based on social network theories and the
social influence model to understand how knowledge professionals utilise technology for …

Are printed documents becoming irrelevant? The role of perceived usefulness of knowledge repositories in selecting from knowledge sources

MS Choi, A Durcikova - … of the Association for Information Systems, 2014 - aisel.aisnet.org
Abstract Knowledge sourcing through knowledge repositories, people, and documents in
organizational settings are investigated in this paper. This competition among the …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding attitudes towards performance in knowledge-intensive work: The influence of social networks and ICT use

KSK Chung - 2009 - core.ac.uk
Understanding factors that enhance or diminish performance levels of individuals is
instrumental for achieving individual (low level) and organisational (high level) goals. In this …

Network structure, position, ties and ICT use in distributed knowledge-intensive work

K Chung, L Hossain - Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
In this study, we develop a theoretical model based on social network theories and the
social influence model to understand how knowledge professionals utilise technology for …

Assessing online community-building through assortativity, density and centralization in social networks

KSK Chung, M Piraveenan, AV Levula… - 2013 46th Hawaii …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this exploratory paper, we examine community capacity building over ten-years via an
online e-government sponsored forum. Using social network analytics, we postulate that as …