Towards a Unified Framework on Knowledge Sharing: An Organizational Knowledge Management Perspective

Knowledge transfer in organization is the process through which one organizational unit is affected by the experience of another. Transferring knowledge, whether at the individual, group, product line, department, or division level, is usually a laborious, time consuming, and difficult task to achieve. The determinants of successful knowledge transfer, which in turn leads to higher organization performance has been the subject of many empirical studies employing various theories and concepts. This paper analyzes twenty such empirical studies and proposes a staged model to summarize their work. The results show the determinants that impact on each stage of the knowledge transfer process and the stages where more studies are needed.