Title: An empirical research on exploring information sharing behaviour based on virtual teams

Authors: Xiuzhen Feng, Wenlei Yue

Addresses: School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China. ' School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

Abstract: Based on theory of reasoned action (TRA) and literature study regarding virtual teams, we conducted an empirical research on influential factors associated with information sharing behaviour of a virtual team and constructed a model for studying virtual team|s information sharing behaviour. Taking advantage of an international course of BOHKNET as the sample of a virtual team, we tested various assumptions related to the model, verified the validity of the model, which confirmed these influential factors further grounded on analysing the data of collected questionnaires. Subsequently, we introduced some strategies for prompting information sharing of virtual teams.

Keywords: virtual teams; information sharing; TRA; influential factors; behaviour models; reasoned action; BOHKNet; cooperative teaching; international teaching; Eindhoven University; Beijing University of Technology; City University; Hong Kong; China; Holland; Netherlands; higher education; universities; networks; virtual organisations; web based organisations; online organisations; networking; world wide web; internet.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2011.040001

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2011 Vol.8 No.3/4, pp.292 - 302

Published online: 21 Feb 2015 *

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