標題: Knowledge sharing in communities of practice: A game theoretic analysis
作者: Li, Yung-Ming
Jhang-Li, Jhih-Hua
資訊管理與財務金融系 註:原資管所+財金所
Department of Information Management and Finance
關鍵字: Economics;Cost benefit analysis;Gaming;Knowledge sharing;Incentive mechanism
公開日期: 1-十二月-2010
摘要: This research applies game theory to analyze the incentives of knowledge-sharing activities in various types of communities of practice (COPs), characterized by individual profiles and decision structures. Indeed, individual decision making results in the under-provision of knowledge; however, the benefit of knowledge sharing may be raised by IT investment and suitable incentive mechanisms we study here. In general conditions, improving communication and collaboration technologies should be prior to developing data mining technologies. However, when the number of community members is sufficiently small and the heterogeneity of the expected value of knowledge among community members is sufficiently large, developing data mining technologies should be considered more important than the other if most community members are low-type ones. On the other hand, based on a screening technique, we find that the benefit of knowledge sharing in the incomplete information setting can be the same as that in the complete information setting if the cost of more efficient community member is smaller than that of less efficient one. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2010.05.033
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/150008
ISSN: 0377-2217
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2010.05.033
期刊: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume: 207
起始頁: 1052
結束頁: 1064
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