Title
An empirical investigation of socio-cultural factors of information sharing in China
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
3-1-2007
Abstract
Understanding information sharing is an important challenge to modern organizations, and is likely to be increasingly considered when IT investment decisions are made world-wide. Our research study investigated the influence of cultural factors on information sharing in China. It was postulated that social network structures such as guanxi, Confucian dynamism, and collectivism could explain the degree to which information sharing took place between people in China. It was found that guanxi, Confucian dynamism, and collectivism all had a significant influence on information sharing. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Information and Management
Volume
44
Issue
2
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Shin, Seung Kyoon, Michael Ishman, and G. Lawrence Sanders. "An empirical investigation of socio-cultural factors of information sharing in China." Information and Management 44, 2 (2007): 165-174. doi: 10.1016/j.im.2006.11.004.