More and more companies have adopted social media platforms for supporting knowledge sharing among customers and employees, where individuals ask and answer questions among each other. Hence, it is important to understand the knowledge-sharing behavior of users on these systems. We propose a theoretically-grounded, dynamic structural model with endogenized knowledge-sharing behavior that takes ...

Not achieving the anticipated synergy effects in the post-acquisition integration context is a serious cause for the high acquisition failure rate. While existing studies on failures of acquisitions exist from economics, finance, strategy, organization theory, and human resources management, this paper applies insights from the knowledge-sharing literature. The paper establishes a conceptual li...

This research aims to determine the factors affecting knowledge sharing behavior among academics in United Arab Emirates universities and identify the effect of university type on academics’ behavior. The research adopted Ajzen’s amended Theory of Planned Behavior. Employing an online survey, data were collected from academics in public and private universities using a quest...

research on ambidexterity is burgeoning, yet understanding of the antecedents and consequences of both activities remains rather unclear. the purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of knowledge sharing on organizational ambidexterity (exploration and exploitation) as well as the mediating effect of mediating role of absorptive capacity. the research statistical population constitutes 9...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing personnel’s attitude toward knowledge sharing in agricultural extension and education organization in iranian ministry of jihad-e agriculture. a survey method was employed for the study, with 110 personnel being randomly selected as a sample out of 140 personnel who were working in the organization and finally 80 question...

Knowledge is a fundamental asset for firms in the contemporary economy. Promoting knowledge sharing within organizations is an increasingly important challenge for managers. Past literature in organizational studies has focused on personal motivations to explain knowledge sharing behaviors. We see an organization as consisting of multiple networks simultaneously, e.g. informational, structural,...

Given the nested nature of work teams, this study distinguishes social capital between team-levels and individual-levels to investigate their effects on individual knowledge sharing in work teams. A survey was conducted to test the hypotheses involving 343 participants who were nested in 47 knowledge-intensive teams across 9 Chinese organizations. Our results reveal that social capital at diffe...

Distinct types of collective intelligence are prominent over different countries. This study explores why some types of collective intelligence knowledge services flourish in some countries but not in others by employing an analogy related to Darwin’s evolutionary theory. This study uses geographical isolation theory and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory (such as the uncertainty avoidance i...

Nowadays, knowledge sharing as one of the components of knowledge management process, has a significant role in organization success. Knowledge causes organizations to be able to acquire knowledge faster and more effective than before, and also apply it which therefore cause them to create competitive advantage. This research is an attempt to investigate the effects of knowledge sharing on inno...