A strategic evaluation model for knowledge relationship among members in enterprise communities

Abstract

With the development of online communities, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of members using Enterprise Communities (ECs) over the past few years. Many join ECs with the objective of sharing their knowledge on the specific issue and seeking relative knowledge from others. Despite the eagerness of sharing knowledge and receiving knowledge through ECs, there is no standard of assessing ones knowledge sharing capabilities and prospects of knowledge sharing in order to get great level of efficiency of knowledge sharing collaboration. This paper developed evaluation model to assess knowledge relationship behavior among ECs members with the aim of Vector Space Model.