What are the Electronic Information Sharing Factors that Influence the Participation Behavior in Higher Education Sector?

Electronic information sharing is a key to effective sharing the public sector's information by using technologies. Most of the electronic information sharing studies did not focus on effect of the participation behaviour of employees. Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate the factors of electronic information sharing that influence the participation behaviour bases on theories and previous studies. Understanding of these factors can increase the information sharing among the employees in higher education sector. Thirteen domains of factors that are discovered in this study are benefits, risk, social network, Information stewardship, information quality, trust, privacy, reciprocity, complexity, expected rewards and associations and perceived effort. This paper proposes electronic information sharing factors in public sector to increase the participation.