One of critical challenge in knowledge management success is to motivate people share their knowledge to others. Prior’s research reveals that motivation as primary driver for people to perform knowledge sharing. Previous study also indicated people influenced by internal (intrinsic) and external (extrinsic) motivation when perform the knowledge sharing. The aim of this article is to investigat...

Purpose – Facilitating knowledge sharing within organisations is a difficult task: the willingness of individuals to share and integrate their knowledge is one of the central barriers. This paper aims to develop a motivation-based perspective to explore how organisations resolve the social dilemma of knowledge sharing. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis builds on a three-category taxono...

The aim of this essay is to give an overview of the topic of intrinsic motivation based on psychological and neuroimaging research. More specifically, the objective is to give an overview of the various benefits of intrinsic motivation, discuss its relationship to extrinsic rewards, and review the existing neuroimaging research that has explicitly explored intrinsic motivation. A positive relat...

Building upon Deci's and Ryan (1985) Self-determination theory as well as the sportive behavioral correlates of the model of Commitment (Scanlan et al., 1976), this study tries to establish the relationship between motivation and commitment in youth sport. For this purpose 454 young competitive soccer players answered the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS) and the Sport Commitment Questionnaire (SCQ)...

the purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of intelligence beliefs and achievement motivation on learning strategies and academic performance of agricultural students. this research was descriptive - correlation with data collected using questionnaire. the statistical population included students in colleges of agriculture at universities of tehran, bouali sina, ilam, shahid bah...

We analyze in this paper the dynamics of the production rates in creative professions from a purely theoretical point of view. The analysis is an extension of a previous work in which self-esteem was assumed to be the unique source of motivation. By contrast, in this paper we assume that the individual is stimulated by a mix of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and we show that extrinsic motiv...

Blogging is sometimes viewed as a new, grassroots form of journalism and a way to shape democracy outside the mass media. In this study, we present a model that addresses the relationships among bloggers’ motivations and their conduct, and report the empirical validation of the model. Expectancy theory is applied to construct a conceptual framework and identify key factors that motivate blogger...

Lack of creative ideas is always the biggest challenge that firms are facing in their innovative activity (Leimeister et al. 2009), and firms are increasing use crowdsourcing to capture diversity ideas from external people. Unfortunately, these crowdsourcing activities can sometime lead to ideas with less creativity than those ideas generated by internal employees (Blohm et al. 2011; Boudreau 2...

Introduction: Webster's defines the word " motivate " as " impel or to urge forward by the exertion of strong moral pressure. " In the context of academia and education, however, motivation takes on a slightly different meaning. According to Linda Nilson, the term means " stimulating the desire to learn something. " 1 There are, of course, two types of motivation when it comes to education or a...