Purpose: Despite the strong focus on virtues in firms, humility is little recognized in the management literature and, more particularly in the literature about knowledge sharing (KS). Despite efforts to foster KS among employees in firms, the effectiveness of this process narrows down to the...

In order to explore scientific writing in Information Systems (IS) journals, we adopt a combination of historical and rhetorical approaches. We first investigate the history of universities, business schools, learned societies and scientific articles. This perspective allows us to capture the...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to attempt to answer the following questions: Are people generous at work places? How often do we see people willing to share, when someone seeks knowledge from them without any expectation? What’s the point in having knowledge when somebody doesn’t share...

Cet article propose une typologie d’utilisateurs ancrée dans les besoins et motivations des utilisateurs. Nous appliquons des méthodes d’analyse de nuages statistiques à des données issues d’une population volontairement diversifiée de 247 participants. Ces méthodes d’analyse...