Barriers factors in contributing knowledge at virtual communities (a literature review)

摘要

This research is focus to identify factors related with people barriers when contributing their knowledge through virtual communities. We apply literature review study as main approach for research method. We collected articles from reputable database journals such as Emerald, IEEExplore, Google Scholar and ProQuest, we using term/keyword “barriers factors in contributing knowledge in virtual communities/online communities”. This research reveals that individual, organizational and technological factors are barriers factors for people in sharing knowledge at virtual communities.