Imagination, Rituals, and Empathy as Influencing Factors on Knowledge Sharing in High Turn-over Inter-organizational Knowledge Networks

It seems that facilitating conditions for knowledge sharing, like a shared understanding, a common language as well as the multifold and direct relations between are idiosyncrasies of a knowledge network. However, these facilitating conditions are limited if a high turn over rate is involved in a knowledge network. As a consequence, capability differences between knowledge network members will influence the occurrence, direction, and results of the knowledge sharing. The question arises how to maintain knowledge network characteristics, e.g. stability? Therefore, further characteristics of knowledge, like knowledge representation, and further characteristics of knowledge sharing, like a process view, are to be taken into account. The paper discusses influencing factors on knowledge sharing in an interorganizational knowledge network. Furthermore, the paper provides an analysis of influencing factors on knowledge sharing in order to maintain a high performance of activities within the knowledge network using imagination, rituals, and empathy.