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This paper presents a conceptual model that depicts the relationship between contribution behaviours and knowledge sharing. The research argues that contribution behaviours are essential to knowledge sharing. Due to their high degree of team interaction, agile software development environments may help in examining contribution behaviours and their role in knowledge sharing and in this study are used as a lens to examine the relationship. A qualitative, case study approach was utilised where research findings indicate that in many instances, knowledge sharing cannot occur in absence of contribution behaviours.

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Coyle, S., Conboy, K., & Acton, T. (2014). Examining the Relationship between Contribution Behaviours and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development. In V. Strahonja, N. Vrček., D. Plantak Vukovac, C. Barry, M. Lang, H. Linger, & C. Schneider (Eds.), Information Systems Development: Transforming Organisations and Society through Information Systems (ISD2014 Proceedings). Varaždin, Croatia: Faculty of Organization and Informatics. ISBN: 978-953-6071-43-2. http://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings/ISDevelopment/3.

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Examining the Relationship between Contribution Behaviours and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development

This paper presents a conceptual model that depicts the relationship between contribution behaviours and knowledge sharing. The research argues that contribution behaviours are essential to knowledge sharing. Due to their high degree of team interaction, agile software development environments may help in examining contribution behaviours and their role in knowledge sharing and in this study are used as a lens to examine the relationship. A qualitative, case study approach was utilised where research findings indicate that in many instances, knowledge sharing cannot occur in absence of contribution behaviours.