Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) PACIS 2009 Proceedings Association for Information Systems Year 2009 Understanding passive knowledge sharing within an online business community from the perspectives of Expectancy Theory & Social Capital Theory Kamarul Faizal Hashim * Felix B. Tan † * PhD Candidate, New Zealand, khashim@aut.ac.nz † IS Professor, New Zealand, ftan@aut.ac.nz This paper is posted at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2009/45