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The previous position of the individual in the network will affect current knowledge sharing behavior, and thus affect the status of the current network.
Moreover, the individual knowledge sharing behavior has an "inertia effect": individual previous status (the degree of node centrality) affects current knowledge sharing behavior, while current knowledge sharing behavior affects the current status in the knowledge network, forming an inertial circuit between personal behavior and network status.
At the same time, individual knowledge sharing behavior has an "inertia effect": individual prior status (the degree of node centrality) affects current knowledge sharing behavior, while current knowledge sharing behavior affects current status in the knowledge network, forming an inertial circuit between personal behavior and network status.
The survey found that a significant percentage of students reported that the current knowledge-sharing process in the department, using notice boards, is acceptable and good but that it needs to improve to reach more students.
In other words, the prior position of the individual in the network will determine current knowledge sharing behavior.
In Model 4 and Model 5, the previous centrality plays significant positive roles on the frequency and originality of current knowledge sharing behavior (0.301, p < 0.01 in Model 4; 0.281, p < 0.05 in Model 5), therefore H3a and H3b are accepted.
With many calls for more longitudinal studies to complement this work (Bock et al., 2005; Wei et al., 2009; Yang and Farn, 2009), only a few have tested the relationship between previous and current knowledge sharing behavior (Lin et al., 2014).
Longitudinal research of organizational knowledge sharing by Lin et al. (2014) found that learning the effect of the individual in the previous phase has a partial mediating effect between previous and current knowledge sharing behavior.
If a member has achieved prior higher centrality in a knowledge network, he is likely more confident in social intercourse and knowledge sharing in the current knowledge network.
H3a: In a dynamic virtual community, previous individual centrality has a positive effect on the current frequency of knowledge sharing.
H3b: In a dynamic virtual community, previous individual centrality has a positive effect on the current originality of knowledge sharing.
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