User adoption of a hybrid social tagging approach in an online knowledge community

• Published in: Aslib journal of information management Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 155 - 175
• Main Authors: Qin, Chunxiu, Liu, Yaxi, Mou, Jian, Chen, Jiangping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Publishing Limited 10.05.2019; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Attitudes; Design; Empirical analysis; Knowledge discovery; Knowledge management; Knowledge organization; Knowledge sharing; Metadata; On-line systems; Ontology; Performance enhancement; Research methodology; Social networks; Subject specialists; Tagging; Tags; Taxonomy; Technology Acceptance Model; Technology utilization; User behavior; Virtual communities; Vocabularies & taxonomies; Web 2.0; China; Technology acceptance model; Social cognitive theory; User adoption; A hybrid social tagging approach; Online knowledge organization; Social tagging

Purpose Online knowledge communities make great contributions to global knowledge sharing and innovation. Resource tagging approaches have been widely adopted in such communities to describe, annotate and organize knowledge resources mainly through users’ participation. However, it is unclear what c...