Social media as social lubricant: How ambient awareness eases knowledge transfer

PM Leonardi, SR Meyer - American Behavioral Scientist, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Knowledge stickiness often impedes knowledge transfer. When knowledge is complex and
the knowledge seeker lacks intimacy with the knowledge source, knowledge sticks in its …

Ambient awareness and knowledge acquisition

PM Leonardi - MIS quarterly, 2015 - JSTOR
The argument proffered in this paper is that use of enterprise social networking technologies
can increase the accuracy of people's metaknowledge (knowledge of “who knows what” and …

Social media, knowledge sharing, and innovation: Toward a theory of communication visibility

PM Leonardi - Information systems research, 2014 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper offers a theory of communication visibility based on a field study of the
implementation of a new enterprise social networking site in a large financial services …

Social media and the development of shared cognition: The roles of network expansion, content integration, and triggered recalling

PM Leonardi - Organization Science, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
This study explores whether employees who have access to social media are more likely
than employees who do not to develop shared cognition—similar perceptions of what and …

How do features of social media influence knowledge sharing? An ambient awareness perspective

Y Zhao, X Zhang, J Wang, K Zhang… - Journal of Knowledge …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to verify the relationship between the features of social
media and knowledge sharing, and to examine how ambient awareness mediates this …

The social media revolution: Sharing and learning in the age of leaky knowledge

PM Leonardi - Information and Organization, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper suggests that social media may be useful for knowledge sharing because they
are leaky pipes for communication-the directionality and content of a particular message is …

The use of different information and communication technologies to support knowledge sharing in organizations: From e‐mail to micro‐blogging

YC Yuan, X Zhao, Q Liao, C Chi - Journal of the American …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research has revealed the following three challenges for knowledge sharing:
awareness of expertise distribution, motivation for sharing, and network ties. In this case …

The contradictory influence of social media affordances on online communal knowledge sharing

A Majchrzak, S Faraj, GC Kane… - Journal of Computer …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The use of social media creates the opportunity to turn organization-wide knowledge
sharing in the workplace from an intermittent, centralized knowledge management process …

Coping with information in social media: The effects of network structure and knowledge on perception of information value

D Sohn - Computers in Human Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
The explosive growth of social media has intrigued many scholars to inquire into why people
willingly share information with others. However, relatively little attention has been devoted …

Social influence and knowledge management systems use: Evidence from panel data

Y Wang, DB Meister, PH Gray - MIS quarterly, 2013 - JSTOR
Theory suggests that coworkers may influence individuals' technology use behaviors, but
there is limited research in the technology diffusion literature that explicates how such social …