Impact of virtuality on trust, reciprocal relations, and knowledge-sharing behaviors

This non-experimental quantitative survey research examined the impact of virtuality on knowledge-sharing behaviors (KSB) in teams. It investigated the relationship between trust and reciprocal relations (RR) with KSB amongst virtual teams (VTs). It also explored the differences in teams' trust, RR, and KSB when they moved from a non-virtual to a virtual environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study used a sample of non-supervisory employees who had experience working on a non-virtual team (before the pandemic) and a virtual team (during the pandemic) from organizations located in Canada. The study used a random probability sampling strategy to generate the sample. Qualtrics, a third-party survey company, recruited the participants using inclusion and exclusion criteria. The variables were measured using the VTTS (Sarker et al., 2003), ARRS (Yi, 2009), and KSBS (Bock et al., 2005) survey instruments. All survey instruments met sufficient reliability and validity standards. The surveys were administered online to participants who met the inclusion criteria and signed the adult informed consent form. The data collected was analyzed using IBM's SPSS version 28. Spearman's rank-order correlation assesses the relationships between the variables. Virtual team trust and RR significantly and positively correlated with KSB amongst VTs. The t tests were used to evaluate the differences in trust, RR, and KSB between the non-virtual and virtual team environments. There was no significant difference between non-virtual and virtual teams for trust, RR, and KSB. A review of the KSB's mean and median statistics revealed that teams' knowledge sharing is low whether members are in a non-virtual or virtual work arrangement. According to the evidence, trust and RR are essential to social exchange behaviors. The data indicated that virtuality did not impact teams' trust, RR, or KSB during the pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

RESPONSE TO COMMENT ON: A CRITICAL REVIEW ON HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER MODELLING OF VIRAL INFECTION AND VIRION EVOLUTION THE CASE OF SARS-COV2

The paper contains a response to the comment by Popovich and Mincheva, focusing on the different meanings of the analysis according to the First and the Second law of thermodynamics and their complementary and never alternative nature.