An increasing number of companies are launching corporate online communities to facilitate knowledge sharing among employees. Although the online environment erases spatial distance and deemphasizes differences in employees’ organizational attributes (e.g., work location and job function), we...

An increasing number of companies start to use corporate online communities as a new information technology tool to facilitate internal knowledge sharing. The corporate community also offers companies a novel source to understand the operations such as workforce management. Little is known,...

An increasing number of companies have started to implement corporate knowledge-sharing communities. Consistent with the observation in the offline setting, employees are less likely to share knowledge with individuals who have higher job ranks (i.e., higher-ups) in corporate communities such as...