Towards Sustainable Knowledge Sharing Practices: An Analysis of Organizational Level Enablers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Concept of Knowledge and Knowledge Sharing
3. Prior Work and Hypothesis Development
3.1. Trust
3.2. Communication
3.3. Reward Systems
3.4. Leadership
3.5. Connections to the Current Study
4. Methods
5. Results
5.1. Profile of Respondents
5.2. Knowledge Sharing and Key Organizational Factors
6. Discussion
6.1. Trust and Knowledge Sharing
6.2. Communication and Knowledge Sharing
6.3. Rewards Systems and Knowledge Sharing
6.4. Leadership and Knowledge Sharing
7. Conclusions
Limitations and Future Research
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Classification | Reference |
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Tacit knowledge Explicit knowledge | Polanyi and Sen [20] |
Migratory knowledge Embedded knowledge | Badaracco [37] |
Experiential knowledge Reported knowledge Intimate knowledge Declared knowledge | Wikstrom et al. [38] |
Cognitive knowledge (know what) Advanced skills (know how) Systems understanding (know why) Self-motivated creativity (care why) | Stewart [39] |
Process knowledge Factual knowledge Catalogue knowledge Cultural knowledge | Ruggles [40] |
Perceptual (cognitive) Conceptual (psychomotor) Affectual knowledge | Yang et al. [18] |
Rational Emotional Spiritual | Bratianu and Bejinaru [16] |
Level | Outcome | References |
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Individual level | Knowledge sharing improves problem-solving, enhances decision making and improves employee performance | [45,46,47,48] |
Knowledge sharing improves idea generation and innovative behavior | [49,50] | |
Team level | Knowledge sharing enhances problem-solving at the team level | [51] |
Knowledge sharing improves team productivity | [52,53] | |
Knowledge sharing enhances team creativity | [54,55] | |
Organizational level | Knowledge sharing facilitates organizational learning capability | [56] |
Knowledge sharing increases organizational innovation | [57,58] | |
Knowledge sharing improves organizational financial performance in terms of cost reduction and profitability | [59,60,61] |
Construct | Items |
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Knowledge sharing |
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Trust |
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Communication |
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Reward systems |
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Leadership |
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Variable | Frequency (n = 104) | Percent (%) | |
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Gender | Male Female | 37 67 | 35.6 64.4 |
Age | ≤20 21–30 31–40 41–50 ≥50 | 1 70 31 2 0 | 1.0 67.3 29.8 1.9 0 |
Education | High School Diploma Bachelor’s degree Master’s degree PhD Other | 5 7 76 15 0 1 | 4.8 6.7 73.1 14.4 0 1.0 |
Role in organization | Team member Manager Supervisor Other | 58 21 14 11 | 55.8 20.2 13.5 10.6 |
Variable | A | B | C | D | E | |
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A | Knowledge Sharing | - | ||||
B | Trust | 0.672 ** | - | |||
C | Communication | 0.695 ** | 0.788 ** | - | ||
D | Reward Systems | 0.644 ** | 0.580 ** | 0.490 ** | - | |
E | Leadership | 0.769 ** | 0.737 ** | 0.770 ** | 0.633 ** | - |
Variable | B | SE | β | t | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Constant) | 0.772 | 0.517 | 1.494 | 0.138 | |
Trust | 0.854 | 0.093 | 0.672 | 9.159 | 0.000 |
Variable | B | SE | β | t | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Constant) | 0.619 | 0.500 | 1.238 | 0.219 | |
Communication | 0.841 | 0.086 | 0.695 | 9.770 | 0.000 |
Variable | B | SE | β | t | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Constant) | 2.874 | 0.313 | 9.193 | 0.000 | |
Reward systems | 0.514 | 0.060 | 0.644 | 8.507 | 0.000 |
Variable | B | SE | β | t | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Constant) | 0.728 | 0.394 | 1.844 | 0.068 | |
Leadership | 0.862 | 0.071 | 0.769 | 12.142 | 0.000 |
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Cormican K, Meng C, Sampaio S, Wu Q. Towards Sustainable Knowledge Sharing Practices: An Analysis of Organizational Level Enablers. Sustainability. 2021; 13(23):12934. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132312934
Chicago/Turabian StyleCormican, Kathryn, Chen Meng, Suzana Sampaio, and Qiong Wu. 2021. "Towards Sustainable Knowledge Sharing Practices: An Analysis of Organizational Level Enablers" Sustainability 13, no. 23: 12934. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132312934