delphi study

The current research seeks to identify and analyze the most important trust-building factors affecting the sharing of organizational knowledge in the field of knowledge management to provide the basis for proper management and proper planning for managers of organizations.

The present research was conducted using the methods of Systematic Review and Delphi. The participating experts in Delphi were selected by purposive sampling. The selected experts were professors of information and knowledge science, sociology, and management in university with scientific and research experience in knowledge management and organizational trust. In order to analyze the data, frequency distribution, mean, agreement coefficient, one-sample t-test, and Friedman ranking were used.

The research findings showed that the trust-building factors affecting knowledge sharing could be categorized into six general dimensions, including organizational trust factor, mental norm, and attitude towards knowledge sharing, external motivation, internal motivation, and organizational support. Among the effective factors from the point of view of experts, the factor of organizational trust, with a total Mean of 4.86, has the most impact, and external motivation, with a total Mean of 4.14, has the least impact on knowledge sharing. The effects of the factors on the components of knowledge sharing also showed that the effect of organizational trust on the intention to share knowledge, with an average of 4.91 and a consensus index of 1.9, has the highest average and value of the consensus index, Vice versa, the effect of the external motivation factor on the component Knowledge sharing behavior has the lowest value with an average of 4.09 and a consensus index equal to 1.38. Also, the factor prioritization index results showed that the organizational trust factor has the first rank with a Mean rating of 4.45. After that, the factor of internal motivation and attitude to knowledge sharing with a similar Mean rank equal to 3.77 in the second rank, the factor of organizational support with a Mean rank equal to 3.50 in the third rank, the Mental norm factor with a Mean rank equal to It ranks fourth with 23.3 and external motivation factor ranks fifth with a Mean rating of 2.27.

The results showed that for efficient knowledge sharing and creating a dynamic platform, the attention and appropriate policy of managers and knowledge management professionals to improve the culture of knowledge sharing among different organization departments seems necessary. In this regard, organizations are suggested to facilitate employee knowledge-sharing by strengthening trust-building factors and motivational stimuli.

 The purpose of this research was studying the future of the dissemination of scientific productions of Knowledge and Information Science in social networks.

This research was carried out using an applied method employing a mixed method approach containing scientometric methods, content analysis, Delphi technique, scenario writing and survey methods to conduct futures studies on the dissemination of scientific production of information science and library researchers in social networks. To conduct futures studies, we need to understand the current needs and interests of researchers in each field of science,that all articles of Knowledge and Information Science indexed in the Web of Science from 2005 to mid-2016 has been investigated in terms of altmetric indicators and subject areas were identified by quantitative content analysis method in terms of dissemination. Then, in the future studies section, Delphi technique, survey methods, and scenario writing approach were used to predict the status of dissemination of scientific productions in future years in social networks.

 According to the study, social networks such as ResearchGate, Mendeley, and Academia will be more appreciated by researchers in the field of Knowledge and Information Science. It was also found that the subject areas such as library and information science, computational studies, information retrieval, are among the top priorities for research in the social networks in the next ten years. The compound annual growth rate of the dissemination of scientific production of information science and library researchers in social networks was found to be 14.5% and the growth of the dissemination of scientific productions of Knowledge and Information Science researchers is expected to follow the continuation scenario. According to the views of Iranian researchers who are active in social networks, the qualitative development of scientific production, the attractiveness of research topics and self-archiving are expected to influence the dissemination rate in the coming years more than other factors.

 The results showed that social networks continuously play the role of disseminators of scientific information and are not limited in disseminating information in the same way as some traditional platforms are. In effect, it is possible to use the dissemination rate as a complementary measure to other altmetric indicators in assessing researchers’ productions in social networks. Dissemination score can be used as one of the complementary measures of Altmetrics indicators in projection trends, future predictions and evaluation of researchers in social networks, the dissemination of information on social networks are more than other factors would be related to the quality of scientific output. Researchers in the field of Knowledge and Information Science can use the results of this research to improve future planning. 

The aim of this study is to identify the key factors influencing the user’s attraction to the public libraries of Iran .
The solutions to attract the audience were extracted using Delphi method and the questionnaires. 21 experts participated in the first and 17 in the second round of Delphi.
Findings: 34 components at the end of the first round and 73 components at the end of the second round were identified as the ways of attracting the audience to the public libraries. Among the components of public libraries, the foundation to attract the user, digitalization, library locations, entrepreneurship, t library equipments, the interior design of library were recognized. Among the role of librarians in attracting the user, the librarians’ skill and assessment have a higher average than the rest of the components.