Motivating people to contribute knowledge has become an important research topic and a major challenge for organizations in the Knowledge Economy. In order to promote knowledge-sharing, managers need to understand the mechanism that drives individuals to contribute their valuable knowledge. Several theories have been applied to study the knowledge-sharing behavior, including social exchange, so...

the ability of knowledge sharing is an important prerequisite to achieve educational and research competence in the academic departments. this paper aims to determine the factors affecting knowledge sharing within and between departments in islamic azad university. technological capabilities, organizational culture, organizational structure, knowledge documentation, supervision control, organiz...

Enterprise 2.0 systems (such as employee expertise sharing forums, employee blogs, and internal wikis) have been adopted in a number of organizations to overcome the barriers to intraorganizational knowledge sharing that have emerged as a result of knowledge silos formed over the year. However, organizations are still struggling to understand the knowledge sharing behavior of employees on these...

While knowledge sharing attitude represents a key factor affecting knowledge sharing behavior, the knowledge sharing attitude remains vaguely understood in the literature. Despite that attitude is a multicomponent concept, most past studies of knowledge sharing have focused on knowledge sharing attitude as a single-component construct. Thus, the structure of the knowledge sharing attitude, its ...

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the relationships among factors which result in improved knowledge sharing, through the empirical validation of a theoretical model consisting of three dimensions: expected benefit in relation to knowledge sharing, trust at workplace, and employee knowledge-sharing behavior. Design/methodology/approach – This study targets three technological co...

Although online learning environments are perceived to facilitate knowledge sharing among individuals, various empirical studies find that participants do not log on frequently or are reluctant to share ideas with others. It is thus crucial for educators to understand when and how online knowledge sharing occurs. Prior model framework has been adapted to explore the motivational factors that dr...