Albaram Badr Mohammed, Lim Yet Mee
UCSI University, Graduate Business School, Kuala Lumpur Campus, 56000, Malaysia.
Heliyon. 2023 Feb 16;9(2):e13764. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13764. eCollection 2023 Feb.
Aiming to comprehend the function of social influence as an extrinsic motive influencing individuals' psychological needs satisfaction to share knowledge in higher educational institutions, the study will profile prior literature on how social influence affects knowledge sharing and conceptualize a suggested framework.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The research thoroughly examined the literature for the previous ten years using a comprehensive evaluation, mapping and analyzes research networks of the literature on relational social influence factors through bibliometric analysis. It offers a conceptual framework that explains extrinsic social factors and their effects on the psychological needs satisfaction to share knowledge among people from the viewpoint of a need to belong.
The study concluded a unique a conceptual framework that provides a solid understanding for the relational social influence phenomenon in the perspective of the need to belong, which satisfy the psychological needs to share knowledge. This will contribute to further investigations in the research area.
The study is a qualitative study and is limited in its generalizability as it needs further investigations to overcome the bias on the part of the researcher.
Adopting the proposed conceptual framework serves as a diagnostic tool for researchers to address the social influence that is likely to boost individuals' satisfaction to share knowledge.
ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This research presents a novel understanding of social influence as an extrinsic motivator arising from a sense of belonging that affects individuals' needs satisfaction to share knowledge.
Increasing the awareness of how social influence is likely to motivate individuals to connect with one another, interact socially, and work together collaboratively to fulfil their satisfaction of psychological needs to share knowledge.
旨在理解社会影响作为一种外在动机对高等教育机构中个体知识共享心理需求满足的作用，本研究将梳理关于社会影响如何影响知识共享的先前文献，并构建一个建议框架。
设计/方法/途径：本研究通过全面评估，对过去十年的文献进行了深入考察，利用文献计量分析绘制并分析了关于关系性社会影响因素的文献研究网络。它提供了一个概念框架，从归属需求的角度解释外在社会因素及其对人们知识共享心理需求满足的影响。
该研究得出了一个独特的概念框架，从归属需求的角度为关系性社会影响现象提供了坚实的理解，满足了知识共享的心理需求。这将有助于该研究领域的进一步调查。
本研究是一项定性研究，其普遍性有限，因为需要进一步调查以克服研究者的偏见。
采用所提出的概念框架可作为一种诊断工具帮助研究者应对可能提高个体知识共享满意度的社会影响。
原创性/价值：本研究对社会影响提出了一种新颖的理解，即它是一种源于归属感的外在动机，影响个体知识共享的需求满足。
提高人们对社会影响如何可能促使个体相互联系、进行社交互动并合作以满足其知识共享心理需求的认识。
