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Table 4.6: Kendall’s τ Correlations for Scale Averages for Phenomena of Interest

	Translation	Coherence / Convergence	Social Norms	Social Types	Information Value and Activities	Information Behavior	Organizations	Sites	Technologies
Translation
Coherence / Convergence	0.436 **
Social Norms	0.194 **	0.407 **
Social Types	0.217 **	0.289 **	0.129 *
Information Value	0.003 NS	0.197 **	0.231 **	0.209 **
Information Behavior and Activities	0.215 **	0.441 **	0.391 **	0.248 **	0.253 **
Organizations	0.399 **	0.432 **	0.234 **	0.290 **	0.046 NS	0.270 **
Sites	0.445 **	0.531 **	0.307 **	0.252 **	0.139 *	0.399 **	0.564 **
Technologies	0.336 **	0.415 **	0.266 **	0.308 **	0.082 NS	0.268 **	0.547 **	0.586 **

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; NS = not significant (α = 0.05)

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