An investigation of information sharing and seeking behaviors in online investment communities
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Highlights：
• We construct a model to capture users’ information sharing and seeking behaviors simultaneously.
• We investigate users’ information sharing and seeking behaviors in a weak-tie network (e.g., online stock message boards).
• Perceived knowledge reduces intention to seek while reputation enhances intention to share.
• Social and community factors significantly influence both intention to share and intention to seek.
• Intention to seek is negatively related to information sharing behavior.
摘要
•We construct a model to capture users’ information sharing and seeking behaviors simultaneously.•We investigate users’ information sharing and seeking behaviors in a weak-tie network (e.g., online stock message boards).•Perceived knowledge reduces intention to seek while reputation enhances intention to share.•Social and community factors significantly influence both intention to share and intention to seek.•Intention to seek is negatively related to information sharing behavior.
论文关键词：Weak-tie network,Information seeking and sharing behaviors,Behavioral intentions,Stock message boards,Social-psychological theory
论文评审过程：Available online 26 October 2013.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.002
