Virtual Communities of Practice Success Model to Support Knowledge Sharing behaviour in Healthcare Sector

Effective knowledge management (KM) initiatives enable the healthcare organizations to develop health practitioners’ knowledge, rather than traditional and expensive learning channels, such as, face-to-face learning. In healthcare sector, virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) are used by health professionals and researchers to improve the quality of healthcare services by enhancing health practitioners’ knowledge. However, in the past, it was not so easy to locate and access knowledge in healthcare sector. Based on the prior IS success theories, this article has developed and validated a multidimensional model of VCoPs success to support knowledge sharing behaviour in healthcare sector. The proposed model can be used to evaluate and measure the knowledge sharing behaviour of VCoPs, as it bridges knowledge gap between research and practice in healthcare sector.