Invitation to a research survey on the adoption of knowledge management systems
Dear colleagues, I am conducting a research about the adoption of knowledge management systems for my PhD thesis in the University of South Australia. Previous studies of Knowledge Management Systems adoption have generally been based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). From this perspective, the main inputs to knowledge management adoption have been the attitudinal factors of perceived ease-of-use and perceived usefulness towards the technology under investigation. Empirical investigations of KMS adoption have either merely replicated TAM or included many other antecedents in the model, most of which have failed to explain why such adoption is (not) happening. A conference paper with a literature review in knowledge management adoption, characteristics of knowledge management usage behavior and proposed model using a perspective of organizational citizenship behavior is published and presented in the 4th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Knowledge Management. This survey is to collect data about the particular organizational and individual/personal factors to verify my proposed hypotheses in their effects in the adoption of knowledge management systems. If you would like to know more about the survey, please click InformationSheet.pdf<http://kmresearcher.wikispaces.com/file/view/InformationSheet.pdf> Please click the following link to participate the online survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pJP5Sg7Y-NQfvM2JzkKABQQ&hl=en Thanks Andrew
Andrew, Your topic and methodology are of special interest to me. Your concept is very interesting but your application is weak. Was your survey reviewed/approved? In review of your survey: * You requested a "Code" but failed to supply one. * There is an * by most questions but no related footnote. * Check your scale descriptors by question and include N/A as an option. * There are extraneous text boxes with no instructions as to how to use them. * You ask many questions about information usage in KSs but fail to ask the important questions about how hard it is to get to the information, the extent of the information, and the difficulty of adding to the information. * You ask many questions about personal sharing and rewards (I'm not sure what type of reward you are talking about). You don't ask critical questions about how well efforts are received and the extent to which efforts were requested. * Your question coding is distracting - at first I thought there was some acronym I should know. I liked your use of Google docs as a survey tool. It was interesting. Finally, I abandoned your survey as it was too long and many of the questions were so vague as to be difficult to answer. Your system did not allow for partial responses. Charlie Charles V. Balch Professor of Computer Information Systems Arizona Western College -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Wat Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:09 PM To: sigkm-l@asis.org; isworld@lyris.isworld.org; asis-l@asis.org; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Invitation to a research survey on the adoption of knowledge management systems Dear colleagues, I am conducting a research about the adoption of knowledge management systems for my PhD thesis in the University of South Australia. Previous studies of Knowledge Management Systems adoption have generally been based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). From this perspective, the main inputs to knowledge management adoption have been the attitudinal factors of perceived ease-of-use and perceived usefulness towards the technology under investigation. Empirical investigations of KMS adoption have either merely replicated TAM or included many other antecedents in the model, most of which have failed to explain why such adoption is (not) happening. A conference paper with a literature review in knowledge management adoption, characteristics of knowledge management usage behavior and proposed model using a perspective of organizational citizenship behavior is published and presented in the 4th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Knowledge Management. This survey is to collect data about the particular organizational and individual/personal factors to verify my proposed hypotheses in their effects in the adoption of knowledge management systems. If you would like to know more about the survey, please click InformationSheet.pdf<http://kmresearcher.wikispaces.com/file/view/Informatio nSheet.pdf> Please click the following link to participate the online survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pJP5Sg7Y-NQfvM2JzkKABQQ&hl=en Thanks Andrew _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Dear Charlie, Thank you for your comment. The survey/questionnaire is reviewed by my supervisor and the university and all scales/questions are adapted from literature to this context. I hope you can pass my questionnaire to your fellow students even though it seems cryptic to CS students. Thanks Andrew On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Charlie Balch <charlie@balch.org> wrote:
Andrew, Your topic and methodology are of special interest to me. Your concept is very interesting but your application is weak. Was your survey reviewed/approved?
In review of your survey: * You requested a "Code" but failed to supply one. * There is an * by most questions but no related footnote. * Check your scale descriptors by question and include N/A as an option. * There are extraneous text boxes with no instructions as to how to use them. * You ask many questions about information usage in KSs but fail to ask the important questions about how hard it is to get to the information, the extent of the information, and the difficulty of adding to the information. * You ask many questions about personal sharing and rewards (I'm not sure what type of reward you are talking about). You don't ask critical questions about how well efforts are received and the extent to which efforts were requested. * Your question coding is distracting - at first I thought there was some acronym I should know.
I liked your use of Google docs as a survey tool. It was interesting.
Finally, I abandoned your survey as it was too long and many of the questions were so vague as to be difficult to answer. Your system did not allow for partial responses.
Charlie
Charles V. Balch Professor of Computer Information Systems Arizona Western College
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