[Air-L] Invitation to a research survey on the adoption of knowledge management systems

[Charlie Balch]

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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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
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