A Data Mining-based Exploration of Antecedents of Voluntary Knowledge Contribution to Organizational Repositories

Knowledge Management systems are often based on the assumption that employees will contribute their job related knowledge to electronic knowledge repositories, though organizations can’t force its employees to do so. In a previous work Stewart & Osei-Bryson (2013) developed and tested a research model that was based on the theory of planned behavior. In this paper we use a data mining approach to explore the same data in order to see if there could be additional hypothesis that could be worthy of future exploration.

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