Designing The Influential Model Of Web Knowledge Sharing On Knowledge Entrepreneurship: A Case Study Of State Public Libraries

The aim of this study was to design an influence model of web knowledge sharing on knowledge entrepreneurship in state public libraries.

This study is considered to be a developmental research due to its practical purpose, exploratory approach with mixed method, and considering its results. The statistical population of the qualitative section included 15 academic experts and specialists selected by the "snowball" purposive sampling method, and the quantitative section consisted of 364 (out of 7000) managers and employees of public libraries selected using Cochran formula and random sampling. Data collection tool for qualitative part was in-depth and semi-structured interview, and for the quantitative part, the researcher-made questionnaire of web knowledge sharing and Skradski’s (2006) standard questionnaire of entrepreneurship knowledge was utilized. Thematic analysis was used in order to identify the effective factors on web knowledge sharing, and for the consensus of experts, Delphi technique was practiced, and confirmatory factor analysis was exercised to evaluate the validity and reliability of the questionnaires. Furthermore, the data was analyzed using spss24 and smartPLS software.

Based on the analysis of the qualitative data obtained from the coding of the interviews, 48 ​​open codes, 9 secondary themes and 3 main themes, namely, "the desirability of web space, the desirability of web information and the desirability of people" were identified, which had the most impact, respectively. Moreover, the impact factor of web knowledge sharing on employees' knowledge entrepreneurship was calculated as 0.554, and the value of the calculated test statistic was greater than 1.96.

Web knowledge sharing and knowledge entrepreneurship are two empowering tools in libraries that can create synergy and lead to progress and excellence by strengthening the scientific and epistemic foundations. Therefore, it is necessary for them to be taken seriously by libraries as a continuous process.