Factors affecting SME owner-managers' willingness to share knowledge online in rural local business networks Carr, Rodney, Parker, Craig M., Castleman, Tanya and Mason, Cecily 2013, Factors affecting SME owner-managers' willingness to share knowledge online in rural local business networks, Journal of internet commerce, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 307-331. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Factors affecting SME owner-managers' willingness to share knowledge online in rural local business networks Author(s) Carr, Rodney Parker, Craig M. orcid.org/0000-0003-3785-8142 Castleman, Tanya Mason, Cecily Journal name Journal of internet commerce Volume number 12 Issue number 4 Start page 307 End page 331 Total pages 25 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2013 ISSN 1533-2861 1533-287X Keyword(s) business networks e-commerce internet online knowledge sharing rural districts small and medium enterprises (SMEs) survey Summary This article integrates typically separate SME research on e-commerce, business networking, and knowledge management into a model explaining factors influencing the willingness of SME owner-managers to share knowledge online in business networks in rural districts. This is important because e-commerce can assist owner-managers, often dispersed in rural districts, to share knowledge between face-to-face networking events. The main factors associated with willingness to share knowledge online were their willingness to share knowledge face-to-face and their intensity of Internet use. Entrepreneurial factors such as owner-managers' expectations of rapid growth, trading outside the district, and seeking information about customers/competitors were indirectly associated with online sharing via intensity of Internet use only. The model suggests network coordinators could encourage online knowledge sharing by assisting owner-managers to see the business value of e-commerce and by ensuring that networking events are suitable for owner-managers, whether or not they have entrepreneurial goals, to facilitate face-to-face knowledge sharing. Language eng Field of Research 150314 Small Business Management Socio Economic Objective 970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2013, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30058929 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Deakin Business School School of Information and Business Analytics School of Management and Marketing Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 10 Dec 2013, 13:51:07 EST Thu, 12 Dec 2013, 11:06:40 EST Thu, 12 Dec 2013, 13:50:36 EST Thu, 12 Dec 2013, 14:16:34 EST Thu, 12 Dec 2013, 14:19:21 EST Thu, 12 Dec 2013, 14:22:30 EST Fri, 13 Dec 2013, 08:27:03 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 19:13:38 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 16:16:51 EST Thu, 08 Jan 2015, 13:42:14 EST Tue, 03 Feb 2015, 13:41:06 EST Mon, 14 Mar 2016, 10:39:21 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 08:41:01 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 22:14:46 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 2 times in TR Web of Science Cited 3 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 575 Abstract Views, 16 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 10 Dec 2013, 13:50:51 EST by Katrina Fleming

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