Monetary economists have long recognized a tension between the bene…ts of fractional reserve banking, such as the ability to undertake more pro…table (long-term) investment opportunities, and the di¢ culties associated with it, such as the risk of insolvency for each bank and the associated losses to bank liability holders. I show that a speci…c banking arrangement (a joint-liability scheme) pr...

With the advent of social web initiatives, some argued that these new emerging tools might be useful in tacit knowledge sharing through providing interactive and collaborative technologies. However, there is still a poverty of literature to understand how and what might be the contributions of social media in facilitating tacit knowledge sharing. Therefore, this paper is intended to theoretical...

Knowledge sharing has been considered a significant component of success in Knowledge Management (KM). In the most organizations KM is often inadequate when it comes to knowledge sharing, especially between staff who work in universities. In order to encourage knowledge sharing, it is important to know why/where/when employees choose to contribute or to receive shared knowledge. The purpose of ...

The objectives of this research were to explore factors influencing knowledge management process in the manufacturing industry and develop a model to support knowledge management processes. The studied factors were technology infrastructure, human resource, knowledge sharing, and the culture of the organization. The knowledge management processes included discovery, capture, sharing, and applic...

This paper reports on an investigation of the critical success factors (CSFs) of knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) among Malaysian undergraduate students (MUS). The research question considered the question regarding “what makes knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) successful among two Malaysian undergraduate communities in Manchester, United Kingdom and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?”The overall aim of ...

Knowledge sharing, tacit knowledge and knowledge management have always been a very important subject in today’s business, as companies are very keen to keep information. Staff redundancy, and employees moving to other companies because of the recession, has made loss of information more frequent. This paper describes some examples of lack of knowledge sharing and what effect it has had on the ...