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,...

Cultural (organizational learning culture) and behavioral (organizational citizenship behaviors) antecedents of knowledge sharing are discussed in the present study. Data was collected from 402 employees of Malaysia. Structural equation model confirms that OLC was positively related to OCB and knowledge sharing. OCB was also found to perform the role of mediator between OLC and knowledge sharing.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the dynamics and considerations professionals regarding sharing tacit, personal knowledge in their practice. Design/methodology/approach Adopting a social-constructivist ontology, qualitative design deploys semi-structured interviews focus groups. Data were coded, analysed through interrelating reasoning. Findings Personal difficult shar...

We examine a knowledge management (KM) success model that incorporates the quality of available knowledge and KM systems built to share and reuse knowledge such as determinants ofusers' perception of usefulness and user satisfaction with an organization's KM practices. Perceived usefulness and user satisfaction, in turn, affect knowledge use, which in our model is a measure of how well knowledg...

background and objective: today is the world of organizations, and to improve their performance, productivity and effectiveness, the competent and committed employees are required. several variables including managerial and organizational factors can affect organizational commitment. hence, we aimed to correlate between demographic variables and organizational commitment of the nurses. material...

The purpose of this study is to extend the existing knowledge of inter-firm knowledge transfer research and provide a deeper understanding of knowledge transfer practice in an alliance context, as well as the reasons for such a practice. This study reports on relevant results derived from semi-structured interviews with 16 top managers in a Chinese international joint venture (IJV) formed by tw...