An empirical investigation of socio-cultural factors of information sharing in China

Seung Kyoon Shin; Michael Ishman; G. Lawrence Sanders

doi:10.1016/j.im.2006.11.004

An empirical investigation of socio-cultural factors of information sharing in China

Seung Kyoon Shin
, Michael Ishman
, G. Lawrence Sanders

Management Science and Systems

University of Rhode Island
Niagara University

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Abstract

Understanding information sharing is an important challenge to modern organizations, and is likely to be increasingly considered when IT investment decisions are made world-wide. Our research study investigated the influence of cultural factors on information sharing in China. It was postulated that social network structures such as guanxi, Confucian dynamism, and collectivism could explain the degree to which information sharing took place between people in China. It was found that guanxi, Confucian dynamism, and collectivism all had a significant influence on information sharing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	165-174
Number of pages	10
Journal	Information and Management
Volume	44
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2006.11.004
State	Published - Mar 2007

Keywords

China
Collectivism
Confucian dynamism
Culture
Guanxi
Information sharing

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