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Mulligan, Deborah R. "Knowledge-sharing leadership sharing of knowledge in relation to leadership /." Full text available, 2001. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/mulligan.pdf.
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Persson, Paula. "Knowledge sharing while teleworking : How it occurs, differences and knowledge sharing barriers." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-80264.
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Knowledge is the resource that provides the best possibilities of being competitive since it increases while used and is difficult to copy. Knowledge sharing has been shown to increase organizational performance in both tangible and intangible measures. Therefore, it is important that employees of a research and development department in a large Swedish industry, that were recommended to telework in combination with short-time working due to covid-19, continue sharing knowledge. This study aimed to analyze how employees in a development department share knowledge while teleworking and how it differs from knowledge sharing in a traditional office. The phenomenon was analyzed in-depth, especially what prevents the knowledge from being shared and knowledge sharing barriers that exist during telework. The objective was to gain further knowledge of how departments can share knowledge efficiently while teleworking. A qualitative single case study was conducted and 8 semi-structured interviews were held with employees at the department. The findings suggest that knowledge sharing occurs with tools that are used in a traditional office and that is no difference in terms of whom employees share knowledge with, but the face-to-face meetings are missing. A further suggestion is that it occurs by less informal knowledge sharing and that the meetings tend to have a stricter agenda that is kept at a higher degree than when working in a traditional office. The knowledge sharing barriers identified were: challenging to express knowledge, time constraints, uncertainty which knowledge to share with whom, less informal places to share knowledge, lack of trust, differences in experience/knowledge/education, attitude, and culture & leadership. The results give companies in similar situations cognizance of how knowledge sharing occurs and differ when suddenly teleworking is required and knowledge sharing barriers that exist. These findings identify risks and difficulties of knowledge sharing when teleworking.
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Boer, N. I. "Knowledge Sharing within Organizations." [Rotterdam]: Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus University Rotterdam ; Rotterdam : Erasmus University Rotterdam [Host], 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/6770.
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Grünfelder, Manon, and Angelika Hartner. "What influences Knowledge Sharing?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-73531.
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In the competitive environment, organizational knowledge became one of the most valuable strategic resources for a company. Indeed, it is said to be the only resource that cannot be imitated, and thus, that provides a reliable competitive advantage. Hence, knowledge management has become a highly investigated field of study. In fact, knowledge sharing, one of the facets of knowledge management is considered as a helpful leverage within a company’s strategy. Knowledge sharing has been studied widely, it is found to be a powerful process to ensure that the developed knowledge within the company is kept in the company and made usable. Even though knowledge sharing has been investigated by researchers, when looking at the practices within organizations, it appears that those are not as efficient as they could be, due to organizational, technical, as well as individual hindrances that affect the establishment of such processes. This thesis aims to increase the understanding of which factors influence individuals’ sharing behavior and which role a knowledge sharing policy takes. Therefore, interviews have been conducted with the employees within the communications department of the Alstom group. Alstom France is multinational company, which is providing transportation and energy producing solutions; this implies that the communication is a support function and needs to work efficient, which makes the matter of knowledge sharing even more important. It was found that the strategic importance of knowledge sharing is highly acknowledged within Alstom, since the company has introduced a knowledge transfer department, which has released the “Alstom Knowledge Management Transfer Handbook”, the company’s internal knowledge sharing policy. It provides a guideline for the managers within the departments. The perceived motivations and hindrances to share knowledge are mainly about the manager’s role, language and the team culture.
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Gao, Sheng. "Understanding knowledge sharing behavior /." View abstract or full-text, 2004. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ISMT%202004%20GAO.
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Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-80). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.
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Sjöland, Mattias, and Sara Persson. "Knowledge sharing: How ICT and organizational culture increase sharing of knowledge within firms." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-10742.
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As companies of the 21th century are getting more and more globalized it is important for companies to stay ahead of their known and unknown competitors. Knowledge is a key factor for many companies. Knowledge cannot always be transmitted effectively between employees in companies. Large sized enterprises have adopted various information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to transmit knowledge fast and efficiently. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have according to previous research, not been able to apply ICT to their business as well as large sized firms The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the gap, which exists between the usage of ICT and knowledge sharing in Swedish SMEs. In this dissertation, a deductive approach will be used as the theories are existent but are lacking empirical data. The research was performed through qualitative studies, and the method that was used was case studies. The case studies were performed in four companies, which belong to the production/service industry, all the companies fall into the category of SME. A model was constructed from existing theories made by Hendriks (2001) this model was analyzed and tested thoroughly. In the analysis of this dissertation, the model was developed as new factors were discovered to have an influence on what is affecting managerial perception of ICT and how it is being used for knowledge sharing. Our findings suggest that ICT use is affected by an influence, which exists in an external layer. This influence consists of legal requirements. Legal requirements seem to have a large impact on how ICT is being used in some companies, which are operating in a knowledge-based industry.
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Alamgir, Rana, and Shahid Ahmed. "ICT Enabled Knowledge Sharing – Impact of ICT on Knowledge Sharing Barriers : The Case of Avanade." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-12452.
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Studies in recent years have revealed that use of ICT can significantly impact knowledge sharing in organizations by enhancing the knowledge sharing process, reducing knowledge sharing barriers, and introducing technology barriers. While this has been identified in many studies and a significant research has been carried out to identify knowledge sharing barriers, there exists a considerable dearth of research when the question of ‘which knowledge sharing barriers can ICT reduce and how?’ is posed. This thesis aims to address this question by studying the case of an organization using ICT for knowledge sharing. The study was carried out using questionnaire and interview findings and results showed that if ICT is effectively used, a number of knowledge sharing barriers - in addition to time and space barriers - can be successfully reduced. Organizational and individual knowledge sharing barriers saw most reduction by ICT while technology barriers did not see any reduction by use of ICT alone. This is in coherence with different studies that use of ICT for knowledge sharing introduces its own technology barriers. However the results show that if employees are tech-savvy and management considerably supports employee involvement in the process of design and deployment of ICT enabled knowledge sharing, technology barriers can also be greatly reduced and even entirely eliminated.
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Tedmori, Sara. "Exploiting email : extracting knowledge to support knowledge sharing." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2008. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/3580.
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Effective management of knowledge assets is key to surviving in today's competitive business environment. This is particularly true for large organisations, where employees have difficulties identifying where or with whom the knowledge lies. Expertise is one of the most important knowledge assets and largely resides in the heads of employees. Many attempts have been made to help locate employees with the right expertise; however, the existing systems (often referred to as expertise finding systems) carry several flaws. In organisations, there are several potential sources where expertise evidence might be found. These sources have been used by the existing approaches to profile employees' expertise. Unfortunately, there has been limited research showing whether these sources contain useful evidence of expertise. Moreover, the majority of existing approaches have not been designed to integrate with the organisations' work practices; nor have they investigated the socio-ethical challenges associated with the adoption of such systems. Therefore, there is a need for expert finding systems that utilise useful sources of expertise and integrate into existing work practices. Through industry involvement, this research has explored and validated email content as a source for expertise profiling. This thesis provides an overview of the traditional and current approaches to expertise finding. The development and implementation of the EKE (Email Knowledge Extraction) system which tries to overcome the aforementioned challenges is presented. EKE has been evaluated by end-users from both industry and academia. The evaluation results suggest that EKE is a useful system that encourages participation, and that in many cases may assist in the management of knowledge within organisations.
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Zadjabbariochtapeh, Behrang. "Knowledge sharing framework for sustainability of knowledge capital." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52.
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Knowledge sharing is one of the most critical elements in a knowledgebased society. With huge concentration on communication facilities, there is a major shift in world-wide access to codified knowledge. Although communication technologies have made great strides in the development of instruments for accessing required knowledge and improving the level of knowledge sharing, there are still many obstacles which diminish the effectiveness of knowledge sharing in an organization or a community. The current challenges include: identification of the most important variables in knowledge sharing, development of an effective knowledge sharing measurement model, development of an effective mechanism for knowledge sharing reporting and calculating knowledge capital that can be created by knowledge sharing. The ability and willingness of individuals to share both their codified and uncodified knowledge have emerged as significant variables in knowledge sharing in an environment where all people have access to communication instruments and have the choice of either sharing their own knowledge or keeping it to themselves.This thesis addresses knowledge sharing variables and identifies the key variables as: willingness to share or gain knowledge, ability to share or gain knowledge, complexity or transferability of the shared knowledge. Different mechanisms are used to measure these key variables. Trust mechanisms are used to measure the willingness and ability of individuals to share or acquire knowledge. By using trust mechanisms, one can rate the behavior of the parties engaged in knowledge sharing and subsequently assign a value to the willingness and ability of individuals to share or obtain knowledge. Also, ontology mechanisms are used to measure the complexity and transferability of a particular knowledge in the knowledge sharing process. The level of similarity between sender and receiver ontologies is used to measure the transferability of a particular knowledge between knowledge sender and receiver. Ontology structure is used to measure the complexity of the knowledge transmitted between knowledge sharing parties.A knowledge sharing framework provides a measurement model for calculating knowledge sharing levels based on trust and ontology mechanisms. It calculates knowledge sharing levels numerically and also uses a Business Intelligence Simulation Model (BISIM) to simulate a community and report the knowledge sharing level between members of the simulated community. The simulated model is able to calculate and report the knowledge sharing and knowledge acquisition levels of each member in addition to the total knowledge sharing level in the community.Finally, in order to determine the advantages of knowledge sharing for a community, capital that can be created by knowledge sharing is calculated by using intellectual capital measurement mechanisms. Created capital is based on knowledge and is related to the role of knowledge sharing in increasing the embedded knowledge of individuals (human capital), improving connections, and embedding knowledge within connections (social capital). Also, market components (such as customers) play a major role in business, and knowledge sharing improves the embedded knowledge within market components that is defined as market capital in this thesis. All these categories of intellectual capital are measured and reported in the knowledge sharing framework.
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Dale, Andrew James Roger. "Defensive behaviours toward knowledge sharing." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4491/.
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Direct patient care requires knowledge sharing between clinical professionals. However, clinicians have often been suspicious of managers' motives, this lack of trust often resulting in reluctance to share knowledge for managerial purposes. Trust is one component of the psychological contract - an unwritten set of expectations between employees and employer. There are strong links between components of the psychological contract and defensive behaviours. There is much theory to support these links but little research evidence to support and explain these links. To overcome defensive behaviours requires an understanding of how they have developed, and particularly the role played by the psychological contract. This research builds on research first undertaken by Argyris in the 1960s, enhanced and made relevant to the current business environment and organisational arrangements currently prevailing in the NHS. A model and an analytical framework were developed for this research to assess organisational, professional and employee health in two health authorities. This research concludes that organisational ill-health, and failure to ensure the psychological contract is intact, result in employees displaying defensive behaviours and keeping knowledge to themselves. Components of the psychological contract were found to have strong links with organisational arrangements. Subtle variances were found between clinical and non-clinical employees, and between Chief Executives/Directors and those below this level. This research adds to our knowledge by identifying the different ways in which these groups develop paradigms that are often in conflict, sometimes intangible, and usually difficult to change. This added knowledge will allow organisational, team and personal development to have a sharper focus, particularly with reference to development of the psychological contract in the NHS, overcoming defensive behaviours, and breaking down barriers to knowledge sharing. This will support the development of infrastructures, teams and individuals to take NHS organisations into the 21st century with added confidence.
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Lomuscio, Alessio. "Knowledge sharing among ideal agents." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/514/.
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Multi-agent systems operating in complex domains crucially require agents to interact with each other. An important result of this interaction is that some of the private knowledge of the agents is being shared in the group of agents. This thesis investigates the theme of knowledge sharing from a theoretical point of view by means of the formal tools provided by modal logic. More specifically this thesis addresses the following three points. First, the case of hypercube systems, a special class of interpreted systems as defined by Halpern and colleagues, is analysed in full detail. It is here proven that the logic S5WDn constitutes a sound and complete axiomatisation for hypercube systems. This logic, an extension of the modal system S5n commonly used to represent knowledge of a multi-agent system, regulates how knowledge is being shared among agents modelled by hypercube systems. The logic S5WDn is proven to be decidable. Hypercube systems are proven to be synchronous agents with perfect recall that communicate only by broadcasting, in separate work jointly with Ron van der Meyden not fully reported in this thesis. Second, it is argued that a full spectrum of degrees of knowledge sharing can be present in any multi-agent system, with no sharing and full sharing at the extremes. This theme is investigated axiomatically and a range of logics representing a particular class of knowledge sharing between two agents is presented. All the logics but two in this spectrum are proven complete by standard canonicity proofs. We conjecture that these two remaining logics are not canonical and it is an open problem whether or not they are complete. Third, following a influential position paper by Halpern and Moses, the idea of refining and checking of knowledge structures in multi-agent systems is investigated. It is shown that, Kripke models, the standard semantic tools for this analysis are not adequate and an alternative notion, Kripke trees, is put forward. An algorithm for refining and checking Kripke trees is presented and its major properties investigated. The algorithm succeeds in solving the famous muddy-children puzzle, in which agents communicate and reason about each other's knowledge. The thesis concludes by discussing the extent to which combining logics, a promising new area in pure logic, can provide a significant boost in research for epistemic and other theories for multi-agent systems.
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Chong, Jan Ning. "Knowledge sharing and work practice /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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McGrane, Stephen Joseph. "Knowledge Sharing in Multicultural Organizations." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1975.
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Knowledge management is critical to achieving competitive advantage in the marketplace. The prominence of multicultural organizations also requires an understanding of knowledge-sharing behavior in multicultural teams. In spite of the need to accommodate these new conditions, a gap exists in the research on knowledge sharing in multicultural organizations. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that affect knowledge sharing in a multicultural context. In the research questions I examined the role that culture, monetary rewards, social units, and diversity play in knowledge sharing in a multicultural environment. This study used Hofstede's cultural dimension theory, Sveiby's knowledge-based theory, and agency theory as the theoretical foundation. A cross-sectional survey design was used for data collection. Data were collected from line managers in multicultural organizations in the United Arab Emirates (n=79). Sampling consisted of a nonprobability sample using convenience sampling. Multiple regression and path analyses were used to analyze the data. Results of this study indicated a positive relationship between the combined effect of rewards, social units, and cultural diversity on knowledge sharing in a multicultural context. There was also a positive relationship between rewards and knowledge sharing. However, no statistically significant relationship between social units or cultural diversity and knowledge sharing was found. This study may promote positive social change by improving understanding of how knowledge is shared in multicultural teams and by contributing to better cross-cultural communication. This study may be useful to managers of multicultural teams who want to improve knowledge sharing in their teams.
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Andreasian, Gelena, and Mylana Andreasian. "Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Transfer Barriers. A Case Study." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-28036.
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Hossayni, Hicham. "Enabling industrial maintenance knowledge sharing by using knowledge graphs." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Institut polytechnique de Paris, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021IPPAS017.
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Autrefois considérée comme faisant partie des coûts généraux de l'entreprise, la maintenance industrielle est devenue critique pour la continuité de l'activité et une véritable source de données. Malgré les sommes importantes investies par les entreprises dans la fabrication intelligente, les pratiques traditionnelles en maintenance dominent toujours le paysage industriel. Dans cette thèse, nous étudions le partage des connaissances comme une solution potentielle qui peut inverser la tendance et améliorer l'activité de maintenance pour se conformer à l'esprit de l'industrie 4.0. Nous considérons spécifiquement les graphes de connaissances comme un outil permettant de partager les connaissances de maintenance entre les différents acteurs de l'industrie.Dans la première contribution de cette thèse, nous avons mené une étude de terrain à travers une campagne d'entretiens avec des experts aux profils différents et issus de divers domaines industriels. Cela nous a permis de tester l'hypothèse de l'amélioration de l'activité de maintenance via le partage des connaissances, qui est un concept assez nouveau dans de nombreuses industries. Les résultats de cette activité montrent clairement un intérêt réel pour notre approche et révèlent les différents besoins et défis à relever.La deuxième contribution est la conception et le prototype de "SemKoRe"; une solution s'appuyant sur le Web sémantique pour partager les connaissances de maintenance. Elle collecte les données liées aux défaillances de machine, les structure dans un graphe de connaissances et les partage entre tous les clients connectés pour réparer facilement les futures défaillances du même type. Une architecture flexible a été proposée pour couvrir les besoins des différents clients. SemKoRe a reçu l'approbation de plusieurs clients de Schneider implantés dans plusieurs pays et de différents segments.Dans la troisième contribution, nous avons conçu et mis en oeuvre une nouvelle solution pour la détection automatique des données sensibles dans les rapports de maintenance. En effet, les rapports de maintenance peuvent contenir des données confidentielles susceptibles de compromettre ou d'avoir un impact négatif sur l'activité de l'entreprise si elles sont révélées. Cette fonctionnalité est perçue, par les experts du domaine comme un point essentiel et critique pour SemKoRe. Elle permet d'éviter la divulgation de données sensibles lors de l'activité de partage des connaissances. Dans cette contribution, nous nous sommes appuyés sur le web sémantique et le traitement du langage naturel pour développer des modèles personnalisés pour la détection de données sensibles. La construction et l'apprentissage de tels modèles nécessitent une quantité considérable de données. Par conséquent, nous avons mis en place plusieurs services pour la collecte collaborative de données, l'annotation de texte et la construction de corpus. Aussi, une architecture et un workflow simplifié ont été proposés pour la génération et le déploiement de modèles de détection de données sensibles personnalisables sur les passerelles de périphérie.En plus de ces contributions, nous avons travaillé sur différentes fonctionnalités connexes à forte valeur ajoutée pour le projet SemKoRe, et qui ont abouti à différents brevets. Par exemple, nous avons développé et breveté une nouvelle méthode pour interagir avec les données de séries chronologiques à l'aide de critères sémantiques. Elle combine l'utilisation d'ontologies et de bases de données de séries chronologiques pour offrir un ensemble utile de fonctionnalités même sur des passerelles périphériques aux ressources limitées. Nous avons également conçu un nouvel outil qui aide les développeurs à interagir facilement avec des graphes de connaissances avec peu ou pas de connaissance des technologies du Web sémantique. Cette solution a été brevetée et s'avère utile pour d'autres projets basés sur des ontologiesFormerly considered as part of general enterprise costs, industrial maintenance has become critical for business continuity and a real source of data. Despite the heavy investments made by companies in smart manufacturing, traditional maintenance practices still dominate the industrial landscape. In this Ph.D., we investigate maintenance knowledge sharing as a potential solution that can invert the trend and enhance the maintenance activity to comply with the Industry 4.0 spirit. We specifically consider the knowledge graphs as an enabler to share the maintenance knowledge among the different industry players.In the first contribution of this thesis, we conducted a field study through a campaign of interviews with different experts with different profiles and from different industry domains. This allowed us to test the hypothesis of improving the maintenance activity via knowledge sharing which is quite a novel concept in many industries. The results of this activity clearly show a real interest in our approach and reveal the different requirements and challenges that need to be addressed.The second contribution is the concept, design, and prototype of "SemKoRe" which is a vendor-agnostic solution relying on Semantic Web technologies to share the maintenance knowledge. It gathers all machine failure-related data in the knowledge graph and shares it among all connected customers to easily solve future failures of the same type. A flexible architecture was proposed to cover the varied needs of the different customers. SemKoRe received approval of several Schneider clients located in several countries and from various segments.In the third contribution, we designed and implemented a novel solution for the automatic detection of sensitive data in maintenance reports. In fact, maintenance reports may contain some confidential data that can compromise or negatively impact the company's activity if revealed. This feature came up as the make or break point for SemKoRe for the interviewed domain experts. It allows avoiding sensitive data disclosure during the knowledge-sharing activity. In this contribution, we relied on semantic web and natural language processing techniques to develop custom models for sensitive data detection. The construction and training of such models require a considerable amount of data. Therefore, we implemented several services for collaborative data collection, text annotation, and corpus construction. Also, an architecture and a simplified workflow were proposed for the generation and deployment of customizable sensitive data detection models on edge gateways.In addition to these contributions, we worked on different peripheral features with a strong value for the SemKoRe project, and that has resulted in different patents. For instance, we prototyped and patented a novel method to query time series data using semantic criteria. It combines the use of ontologies and time-series databases to offer a useful set of querying capabilities even on resource-constrained edge gateways. We also designed a novel tool that helps software developers to easily interact with knowledge graphs with little or no knowledge of semantic web technologies. This solution has been patented and turns out to be useful for other ontology-based projects
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Hassan, Ahmed. "Knowledge Sharing in IT consultancy firms : Exploring the knowledge sharing mechanisms in small IT consultancy firms." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-134596.
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Knowledge management is a key avenue for consulting firms to ensure survival and maintain competitive advantage. Prior research has focused on many different aspects of knowledge sharing in IT firms and projects. However, even when the importance of KS is acknowledged in IT consulting firms, little is known about how the mechanisms look like inside these firms. The purpose of this study is to explore the knowledge sharing mechanisms in small IT consulting firms or offices. Qualitative methods were used to approach the KS phenomenon, which involves six interviews that included senior consultants and managers from various firms. The results show that the small firms have a better advantage when it comes to sharing. Furthermore, that most knowledge sharing in these firms occur in an informal way since consultants prefer social interaction than using systems. Finally, the results show that a concept labelled as “Knowledge market” strongly exist in consultancy firms in small cities like Umeå.
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French, Neil. "Factors which influence organisational knowledge sharing." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23806.
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This research investigated which combination of factors had a positive and significant impact on knowledge sharing within an organisation. By finding this combination it will allow organisations to prioritise resources to specific factors that are seen to positively affect knowledge sharing. One hundred and seventy nine employees of a prominent South African company gave an indication into which factors in combination would provide a model that best predicts a positive impact on knowledge sharing. Statistical testing carried out on the resulting data gave an indication of the best fitting model. It was found that three of the four identified factors contributed 62% to the overall positive effect on knowledge sharing when measured together. CopyrightDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Auger, Dale Francis. "First Nations education, sharing of knowledge." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0017/NQ47884.pdf.
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Kou-Barrett, C. "Micro-foundations of organizational knowledge sharing." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1412994/.
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Although current research on knowledge sharing has offered significant insights into the effective exchange of expert knowledge in day-to-day assignments, the role of individuals within these knowledge sharing processes, as well as how they affect individuals’ subsequent knowledge sharing choices, remains relatively under-explored. This dissertation investigates the role of individuals in knowledge coordination processes through three grounded, qualitative studies based on large engineering projects in a multi-national engineering consultation and information technology company. Study 1 focuses on the evolution of task interdependence during knowledge coordination and examines how a group of individuals become collectively responsible for problems that arise during work interactions. The process model shows that individuals re-interpret their accountability depending on the nature of the problem at hand, which, in turn, influences their subsequent problem solving efforts. Study 2 explores how managers shape the team’s interdependence . This study shows that task interdependence can be developed and reciprocally reinforced through knowledge creation, even in spite of physical distances. The model shows that the use of boundary objects – templates – not only alters focus at both team and project level but also effectively integrates and aligns discrete team efforts toward a unified project goal. Study 3 sets out to explore how interdependence is affected by distance, focusing on the development of psychological inter-team interdependence through comparison of two projects. In particular, the emergent model of inter-team closeness revolves around sensemaking of cross-team distance and of one’s own role. As such, findings reveal that distributed teams may actually have higher levels of inter-team closeness than collocated teams.
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Díaz, Alicia. "Supporting divergences in knowledge sharing communities." Nancy 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NAN10131.
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Ln this thesis, I develop a theoretical framework which conceptualizes the knowledge sharing activity and considers the occurrence of knowledge divergences. This framework synthesizes the architecture of a Collaborative Knowledge-Sharing system as a groupware application which supports a knowledge sharing process. This framework takes into account the collaboratively and distributed development of a shared knowledge repository, the occurrence and coexistence of a knowledge divergences and the preservation of the autonomy of the participants. Ln particular, I show that an monotonie extension of the knowledge repository, differentiated workspaces for preserving individual autonomy, appropriately supports to manage knowledge divergence and suitable awareness services for keeping users aware of the knowledge sharing activity can be framed in a sufficiently operational form which improves the conditions of usability of traditional knowledge-sharing systemsCette thèse propose un cadre théorique qui conceptualise l'activité de partage de connaissance et considère la divergence comme un objet de premier ordre. Ce cadre propose une vision d'un système de partage de connaissance comme étant basé sur une application collaborative conduite par un procédé de partage de connaissance. Il prend en compte le développement distribué et collaboratif d'une mémoire commune, l'apparition et la conservation de divergences et l'autonomie des participants. En particulier, des objectifs sont de montrer qu'une approche de construction par augmentation monotone de la mémoire, des espaces de travail différenciés (privé/public) et des services de conscience de groupe adaptés afin de permettre aux utilisateurs de suivre l'évolution de la mémoire partagée, sont des éléments clés dans la conception d'un collecticiel de partage de connaissance
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Yu, Yuecheng. "Motivational foundation of individual knowledge-sharing /." View abstract or full-text, 2004. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ISMT%202004%20YU.
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Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 35-37). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.
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Aziz, Najibullah, Darren Gleeson, and Muhammad Kashif. "Barriers and Enablers of Knowledge Sharing: A Qualitative Study of ABB, Bombardier, Ericsson and Siemens." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-17951.
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Abstract Date: January 17, 2013 Level: Bachelor thesis in business administration, 15 ECTS Institution: School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, Mälardalen University Authors: AZIZ Najibullah, GLEESON Darren and KASHIF Muhammad 28th August 1980, 29th November 1977, 22nd July 1984 Tutor: Eva Maaninen-Olsson Keywords: Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Factors Affecting Knowledge Sharing Research Question: What hinders or enables knowledge sharing in Swedish-based multi-national corporations from a cultural, motivational and trust perspective? Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the barriers and enablers of knowledge sharing within multi-national corporations. Method: The research method chosen to fulfill the purpose of the thesis is a qualitative approach. In order to achieve the purpose both primary and secondary data was sought. In accordance with the qualitative approach, interviews have been carried out with senior managers in ABB, Bombardier, Ericsson and Siemens. Data collected from these interviews represents the primary data. Secondary data has been gathered from company websites. Conclusion: The results from the studied multi-national organizations suggest that knowledge sharing culture is influenced by communication, rules, regulations and routines (sub-factors of culture). This study shows that communication, rules, regulations and routines are enablers of knowledge sharing in the organizations. However, language and technology (sub-factors of culture) as collaborative tools are proven to be problematic; consequently creating hindrances to knowledge sharing. When it comes to motivational factors (rewards, power and reciprocity), this thesis shows that none of the studied companies offer rewards for knowledge sharing. This confirms the controversy connected with rewards which can either enable or cause hindrance to knowledge sharing. Reciprocity seems to enable knowledge sharing in the studied organizations whereas power remains controversial. The existence of power can either be a barrier or an enabler for knowledge sharing depending on the individual’s perception of power. This thesis also shows that the existence of trust enables knowledge sharing between employees, but the difficulties of building this trust is akey problem for management.
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Fröjdh, Karin, Josef Brengesjö, and Kirsten Wenderholm. "Knowledge Sharing in Inter-Organizational Networks : An Evaluation of the Knowledge Sharing Processes in the SAPSA Network." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-20100.
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This paper is aiming to discover the conditions and processes that facilitate and influence an efficient knowledge transfer in knowledge networks such as the inter-organizational SAP network SAPSA. Knowledge is a strategically important source for companies, not only because it fosters internal growth, but also because it leads to competitive advantage. In the last years the importance of knowledge networking has considerably increased and especially inter-organizational learning is considered to present a factor having critical influence on the success of a company. Through the participation in networks individuals are able to trade their knowledge and information with others experiences, ideas and expertise. Knowledge sharing and networking should hence be considered a highly social process, which is influenced by various factors and conditions. Through interviews with the different members and participative observation in the focus groups of the SAPSA network the importance and effect, these facilitating conditions were evaluated, drawing valuable conclusions on how to enhance the knowledge sharing process. It was found that the main problem of SAPSA was the low activity in the focus groups, which had a negative influence on the knowledge sharing processes. The problem however was not that the members did not consider knowledge networking per se as useful, in contrast almost all respondents regarded knowledge networking as highly beneficial stressed the advantages of knowledge sharing. This led to the assumption that the problem had to lie in the implementation of the knowledge sharing process. It furthermore was detected that for sharing different kinds of knowledge such as tacit and explicit knowledge, different forms of meeting proved to be more efficient than others and that form of knowledge and the conversion mode should be taken into consideration when deciding on the type of meeting. Various conditions were found to have impact on the efficiency of the knowledge sharing process, such as an optimal group size, the level of trust and commitment and the composition of a group and knowledge base. Furthermore communication was regarded to present an important issue having a big impact on the quality of the knowledge exchange. Management support from SAPSA and the respective user companies proved to be essential in order to increase motivation and commitment in the focus groups. Some strategic changes were considered to have a positive influence on the knowledge networking processes within SAPSA. The establishment of a clear consistent vision capturing all the different groups within the network would provide benefits in order to be able to motivate members to participate. Here the focus should lie on the decision makers, since those were the ones to have the ability to set incentives and provide resources for the users. In this process the difficulties to measure the positive outcomes of knowledge networking and the subsequent danger of an underinvestment into knowledge networking should be taken into consideration. SAPSA should increase their influence on the focus groups and provide more guidance, in order to assure the quality of the knowledge exchange in the meetings. A new communication strategy should be developed with focus on an Internet based forum, where users and management could interact with each other. Further research in other knowledge networks is necessary in order to increase the transferability of the gained results.
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Jansson, Lovisa, and Filippa Peyron. "Challenging the Knowledge Sharing Norms in Technical Knowledge-Intensive Firms." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-278193.
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Gardiner, Claire M. "The Generation and Sharing of Knowledge within Organisations: Macro-level and Micro-level Influences on Individual Knowledge Sharing Orientation and Behaviour." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367182.
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The ability of an organisation to respond quickly to changing circumstances and marketplace demands has been identified as an important factor in organisational effectiveness, particularly where work innovation is involved. Hence, knowledge generation and sharing practices in an organisational setting are central to organisational effectiveness. This dissertation identifies the mediating influence of relations between organisations and their workers, and the relations among workers, on knowledge generation and sharing practices. The dissertation elaborates occurrences within a socially-constructed system, specifically, within a public sector organisational setting, that shape knowledge sharing. Through an analysis of both macro and micro level organisational practices and behaviour, it identifies factors shaping the relations between organisations and knowledge sharing. These comprise: (a) the generation of knowledge, (b) the contested nature of the process of knowledge construction, (c) the impact of the individual worker’s experience of the organisation’s internal environment on shaping their knowledge sharing orientation, (d) how the organisation is understood to value knowledge sharing, (e) the impact of relations with colleagues on knowledge sharing behaviours, and (f) the perceived outcomes of knowledge sharing behaviours.
The organisation’s external environment was found to create premises for its practices, bases for its workers’ beliefs, orientations and actions, and was an important factor influencing knowledge generation and sharing goals and activities. Factors in the internal macro-level environment (e.g. the organizing principles, control systems, networks and power relations), framed the structure, exercise, coordination and communication of individual expertise and patterns of cooperation. These are important because they constitute an introduction to the organisational dynamics that workers experience in the organisation on a daily basis, thereby informing their perceptions, beliefs and decision-making about knowledge generation and sharing.
Salient micro-level factors that influence the development of the individual’s relationship with their organisation and their knowledge sharing orientation and are all held to act as important influences, are identified as: (a) the individual worker’s affective organisation commitment; (b) trust levels between individuals, groups and between an individual and their supervisor; (c) feelings of security (including feeling valued personally and for specific expertise); (d) role clarity and linkages; (e) rewards for job involvement and extra-role behaviour, (f) the experienced reciprocity of effort and reward, (g) experienced organisational justice, and (h) discretion to question, innovate and improve.
This dissertation makes clear connections between action and theory. Through adopting a case study approach, its contribution is uniquely integrative. It elaborates an understanding of knowledge generation and sharing practices and why these practices need to be accounted for in an organisation’s activities and social practices. Yet, because of both micro and macro level contributions these behaviours need to be understood in the specific contexts of organisation members’ activities and practices. Hence, the dissertation advances insights to inform future practice, arising from the centrality of knowledge sharing to organisations’ sustainability and the dependency on workers’ understanding of their relations with the organisation, its representatives and their co-workers.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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School of Education and Professional Studies
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Na, Seunguk. "Knowledge management : an exploration of knowledge sharing within project-based organisations." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/knowledge-management-an-exploration-of-knowledge-sharing-within-projectbased-organisations(0d4ec79c-4bd9-4959-938a-4dc370925051).html.
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For several years, knowledge has been treated as a key successful resource in business and management. As knowledge management has been researched in various research domains, academics in project management have been also interested in the potential role of knowledge management. The aim of the research is to explore the usefulness and potentiality of knowledge management as well as to confirm the influencing elements of knowledge sharing within project-based organisations. This research implemented a qualitative research method which prompted an in-depth understanding of individual members’ perceptions towards knowledge sharing in project teams. In order to fulfil the methodological objective, the data were collected by using semi-structured interviews with 26 project managers from five project-based firms. The grounded theory method was adopted as the data analysis technique of this study. It allowed the researcher to explore and analyse the individuals’ perceptions of knowledge sharing and knowledge management. As a result, this study suggests four potential influencing factors of knowledge sharing, which are trust, relationship, motivation, and self-efficacy. The research data show that trust plays a role as a basic currency between members to share knowledge. Positive and affirmative relationships with other members will make it easy to share more knowledge and lead to better quality of knowledge. In this research, the informants also imply that members would be motivated to engage in knowledge sharing in respect to workload, culture, and remuneration. Lastly, one’s belief that one can achieve certain things -self-efficacy- is also important to create improved knowledge sharing between members in project teams. The research found that the majority of the companies managed their knowledge and carried out knowledge sharing activities. However, most of them did not recognise that their behaviours were relevant to knowledge management. In this research, the author suggests that confirming precedent knowledge management and knowledge sharing activities should occur prior to adopting new approaches. Furthermore, this research explores the potential influencing factors that play a role as either enablers or barriers. Thus, project managers and management should be cautious and ensure that influencing factors are equally balanced. Due to the nature of qualitative research methods, the sample size is relatively small compared to quantitative methods such as a survey and a questionnaire. As a result, future studies will consider more data in order to enhance further applicability and utilisation of the research.
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Byström, Hanna, and Marina Jäger. "Knowledge Sharing in Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams of an NGO : Exploring the motivation for knowledge sharing of individuals." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37614.
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Purpose – This master thesis aims to investigate knowledge sharing within two selected cross-cultural virtual teams of a non-governmental organization. The particular focus of this study is on the motivation for knowledge sharing of the individual team members. Based on the findings, the study provides implications for the development of an organizational knowledge management strategy.Design/Methodology/Approach – The qualitative research approach of this study was based on the conceptual framework of this thesis. Said framework was particularly influ-enced by Swift et al.’s (2010) model on goal orientations and the motivation to share knowledge. After eight semi-structured interviews with participants from the organization, Template Analysis was applied for the data analysis.Findings – It was possible to categorize the participants in learning-prove, learning-avoid and performance-prove goal orientations which showed that the motivation stemmed from both learning and demonstrating competence. Furthermore, contributing was a motivating factor in both goal orientations. In the learning goal orientation, it was demonstrated by wanting to contribute to a better life for youth and children and the performance goal orien-tation focused on contributing to a successful organization. The factors which affected the behaviour towards knowledge sharing were relational and cognitive ones. Structural factors did not have an effect.Practical Implications – The practical contribution of this study was the development of managerial implications for the NGO’s HR department. Based on the identified findings, these implications are to be used for the development of a knowledge management strategy within the organization, as it is currently lacking. These implications focus mainly on infra-structural issues as well as on the promotion of organizational culture.Originality/Value – The value of this study is the focus on cross-cultural virtual teams of an NGO, an area lacking research regarding the motivation of individuals to share knowledge. The authors put a particular focus on team members from Northern and Eastern Europe as well as Africa.
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Eren, Murat Erkan. "Knowledge-sharing Practices Among Turkish Peacekeeping Officers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149588/.
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The Turkish National Police (TNP) peacekeeping officers experience poor knowledge-sharing practices before, during, and after their tours of duty at the United Nations (UN) field missions, thus causing knowledge loss. The study aims to reveal the current knowledge-sharing practices of the TNP peacekeeping officers and proposes a knowledge-sharing system to share knowledge effectively. It also examines how applicable the knowledge management models are for their knowledge-sharing practices. In order to gain a better understanding about the knowledge-sharing practices of TNP officers, the researcher used a qualitative research method in this study. The researcher used semi-structured interviews in data collection. The participants were selected based on the non-probability and purposive sampling method. Content analysis and constant comparison was performed in the data analysis process. The most important knowledge sources of the peacekeeping officers are their colleagues, the Internet, and email groups. The peacekeepers recommend writing reports, organizing training programs, conducting exit interviews, adopting best practices, and creating a knowledge depository. The study uncovers that organizational culture, hierarchy, and physical proximity are significant factors that have a vital impact on knowledge sharing. Knowledge Conversion Model is substantially applicable for the knowledge-sharing practices of the TNP peacekeeping officer.
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Gnezdova, Irina, and Leyla Khorasani. "Knowledge Sharing in a Customer Oriented Organization." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-121.
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In order to stay competitive, companies need to take into account many different aspects such as Knowledge Management (KM). Knowledge sharing (KS) is an important aspect in the field of KM. Organizations today increasingly recognize the need to support, in one way or another, knowledge sharing amongst employees. Employees and specifically managers are searching, testing and using various proactive interventions to facilitate knowledge sharing. By effectively enhancing knowledge sharing a company can develop a higher degree of competitive advantage.
The purpose of our thesis is to make recommendations for how knowledge sharing may be improved amongst the sales representatives in the sales department at a customeroriented company, Arctic Paper. In order to fulfil this purpose and to present a reliable and valid report a qualitative analysis method was used. We wanted to get a deeper understanding of the chosen subject matter in this company and therefore conducted the interviews in a semi-structured manner in order to have the flexibility to follow up the interviewed participants perceptions and thoughts.
Conducting the interviews on the two levels, strategic and operational, turned out to be rather informative. We found that the view on the chosen subject, knowledge sharing, differed in the two levels. There seemed to exist a notion of problem-free view on the higher level of the company, while the employees on the operational level could more easily target the main problems that they face. The most evident problems regarding the sharing of knowledge in the Sales Department concerns the tacit knowledge, since this is prevalent here and do not have structured means of transfer among the sales representatives and therefore easily can get lost. The informal direct sharing of knowledge causes loss of information and errors in production and delivery. Drawing from this we have gathered some recommendations for the company to consider, which will be presented in the study. Some of the most important recommendations that we could conclude deriving from the probelms concerns the transferring of a certain amount of tacit knowledge into explicit, which means paying more attention to the process of externalization from Nonaka’s model which we present in the our Frame of Reference.
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Ferenc, Romana, and Irena Dujmovic. "Knowledge sharing with ERP - system within companies." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Informatik, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13519.
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Olofsson, Malin. "Managing knowledge sharing in software development organizations." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Projekt, innovationer och entreprenörskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-80980.
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In the competitive world of business, more challenges than ever are putting higher pressure on enterprises to become more time-efficient, increase the quality of their offer, and at the same time keep the costs low. For the knowledge-intense business of software development the pressure becomes even higher. With the resources stored in the mind of people, managing the input becomes a very difficult task. By all the different knowledge that needs to be integrated among all different people, knowledge sharing has been regarded as a competitive and crucial tool for software development organizations to become more efficient. Nevertheless, initiatives that aim to support knowledge sharing have failed to become integrated in the daily activities. It has resulted in additional research on what elements impact knowledge sharing. On that basis the purpose of the report was formulated as follows: The purpose of the study is to analyze how influencing factors can be supported on a daily level, in order to enhance knowledge sharing in software development organizations. From existing literature four main factors were identified to affect knowledge sharing in different ways: individual motivation, social ties, virtual teams and the fit between the initiatives and the organizational context. In addition some project processes that are considered routine activities in the agile methodology also showed to affect knowledge sharing with the most visible and concrete ones consisting of daily meetings, retrospectives and pair programming. To be able to answer the purpose of this study semi-structured interviews were conducted in the case company IFS. The findings demonstrated how the main factors and project processes supported knowledge sharing on a routine level, and also showed upon the interplay between the main factors. All four main factors affected knowledge sharing on a daily level to different extents. The social ties and the virtual teams were supported by the agile project processes in a direct manner. In particular the retrospectives were highly important for virtual teams, since they served as complement to the essential informal forums that more easily are created for collocated teams. Furthermore it is concluded that fixed teams are more preferable than interchanging teams. However, directing support for sharing knowledge regarding teams’ work procedures decreases the impeding effect interchanging teams have on knowledge sharing. Furthermore it is concluded that a general individual motivation for sharing knowledge is not enough to make it a part of the daily work. Different types of knowledge result in different degree of motivation, and are therefore shared to different extents. Organizations need to separate different types of knowledge and demonstrate the importance of sharing each and one of them, in order to increase the individual motivation to share all of them. In particular, organizations need to increase the motivation for employees to share the types that are not directly related to solving work tasks and non-complex knowledge. In addition, the study showed that the individual motivation is the one among the four identified factors that works as a prerequisite to enhance knowledge sharing on a daily level. Regardless of the strength of the social ties and the presence of virtual teams, a low level of individual motivation hinders knowledge sharing to even occur. Therefore, the individual motivation must be enhanced by organizations in order to succeed with embedding knowledge sharing as a natural part of software development.
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Amit, Pariyar. "Supporting Consistencies in Multi-Language Knowledge Sharing." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/202744.
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Seba, Ibrahim Ahamd. "Knowledge sharing within the Dubai police force." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.664308.
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Müller, Roland M. "Knowledge sharing and trading on electronic marketplaces." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2006. http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2006/487/index.html.
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Woll, Suzanne Heather. "Zero knowledge proofs and secret sharing problems /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6896.
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Sonne, Anne-Mette. "Knowledge sharing in international product development teams /." Aarhus, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/539961329.pdf.
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Johnsson, Matilda. "Knowledge sharing in a competence intensive company." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för datalogi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-256566.
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The overall purpose of this study is to investigate a competence intensive company, evaluating their knowledge sharing. By identifying barriers and in what way IT can have a positive impact on the knowledge sharing, the study investigates how knowledge can be shared more efficiently within the company. A thorough case study was conducted and furthermore analysed with respect to a model proposed by the author. The model consist of three dimensions of knowledge creation, the “how, where and what”, together with identified barriers: individual, organisational and technological. Some of the identified barriers are lack of time, insufficient captures and evaluations of past mistakes, lack of supporting organisational structure, rewards and recognition. IT is vital for the everyday work and with improved tools time can be set free. To share knowledge more efficiently the management should mediate the value of knowledge sharing as well as implement knowledge sharing initiatives. There should also be expressed rewards for sharing knowledge motivating the employees to take their time and share knowledge. Another approach, focusing on the employees’ socialisation rather than documentation, should be advocated and more time needs to be set free. Upgrading the IT tools and harvesting lessons learnt from project could accordingly enable a more effective knowledge sharing for the company.
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Chao, K. M. "Knowledge sharing and reuse for engineering design." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361204.
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Jaber, Hassan, and Enock Nana Mensah. "Knowledge Sharing in the Internal Audit Department." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-34362.
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Aim: This study aims to investigate the factors that affect the practices of effective knowledge sharing in the Middle East region. Method: The research paper is based on a single case study about the internal audit department in a commercial Lebanese bank. Qualitative research methods have been applied which included semi-structured interviews. Results & Conclusion: The research results suggest that organizational, individual and IT are the factors affecting knowledge sharing practices at the bank. However, one of the main issues is related to the national cultural and more specifically to how power distance, individualism, and masculinity are spread throughout the IA department and proving a moderating effect towards organizational, individual and IT factors. This research paper shows that power distance is one of the main contributing factors concerning knowledge sharing. Barriers such as trust, lack of reward system, and centralized organizational structure and lack of information technology infrastructure are regarded as problems in knowledge sharing. However, the empirical results show that the principal issue lies in the power distance. Suggestions for future researches: Suggestions for further researches would be to get the perspectives from an internal audit department at another organization in the Middle East that is following a decentralized organizational structure, having advanced IT infrastructures, along with reward system, in order to compare it with the results given in this study. Furthermore, it would be interesting to make observations at the organization in order to deeply understand how knowledge is being shared at the field. Contribution of the study: This study shows that organizations that are identified with centralized organizational structure, lack of trust, lack of IT support and special rewards system entail different issues with individuals’ knowledge sharing practices. Besides, this research paper provides the organization with insights into what thoughts its employees have when it comes to knowledge sharing. Furthermore, this provides the literature about knowledge sharing in the Middle East with a new model showing the impact of national culture over the factors that affect knowledge sharing practices in the Middle East.
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Brijball, Nirusha. "The impact of culture on knowledge sharing." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23770.
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In the new global economy, knowledge is recognised as one of the most valuable organisational assets and an important competitive advantage. Therefore organisations need to concede that knowledge sharing is imperative in order to survive and compete effectively in the global economy. This study examined the extent to which culture impacted the effectiveness of knowledge sharing in an organisation. There were four dimensions of culture identified that influence knowledge sharing namely individualism/collectivism, power distance, masculinity/feminity and uncertainty avoidance. This research was quantitative in nature. A web based questionnaire was administered to a sample of 96 respondents in top and middle management by means of convenience sampling. The findings in this study indicate that age, gender and work experience have no influence on the impact of culture on knowledge sharing. It was further found that three out of the four cultural dimensions impacted knowledge sharing positively. They were low individualism and high collectivism, low power distance and low masculinity and high feminity. The fourth cultural dimension uncertainty avoidance was found to be high indicating a negative impact on knowledge sharing. Recommendations for future research include a larger sample size for a more comprehensive study, a comparative study with other chrome manufacturing operations and identifying the necessary tools required to reduce high uncertainty avoidance cultures. CopyrightDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Tsai, Pi-Chao, and 蔡碧昭. "Acceptance of knowledge-sharing platform and Behaviors of knowledge sharing." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37053790042110954940.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
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The goal of this study, which the Executive Yuan personnel staffs are for the study target, is aimed to understand the acceptance status of the knowledge-sharing platform, as well as the influence factors of the knowledge-sharing behavior for the personnel staffs under the virtually practice community environment. First of all, in order to understand the acceptance status of the knowledge-sharing platform for the study target, Davis’s Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is adapted as the foundation to understand the opinions of the usefulness and the suitability of the knowledge-sharing platform for the personnel staffs, as well as those whether some conspicuous differences occur at the knowledge-sharing behavior or not. Next, in order to understand the influence factors of the knowledge-sharing behavior for the study target under the virtually practice community environment, Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is adapted as the foundation to understand the influence factors of the attitude, subjected norms, perceived behavioral control, etc, of the knowledge-sharing for the personnel staffs, as well as those whether some conspicuous differences occur at the knowledge-sharing behavior or not. After this study, the result is described as follows. 1. High correlation appears on the perceived usefulness and the perceived suitability with the knowledge-sharing attitude. 2. Moderate correlation appears between the perceived usefulness and the perceived suitability. 3. The correlation occurs among the knowledge-sharing attitude, the knowledge-sharing subjective norms, and the perceived behavioral control. 4. The correlation occurs among the perceived usefulness and the perceived easy of use. 5. No conspicuous influence occurs among the perceived usefulness, the perceived suitability, the knowledge-sharing attitude, the knowledge-sharing subjective norms, and the perceived behavioral control for knowledge-sharing behavior. Therefore, some suggestions are described in the following. 1. Since no conspicuous influence occurs at all aspects for actual knowledge-sharing behavior after this study, the aspect of the knowledge-sharing intention is suggested as a addition in order to understand whether some conspicuous differences appear for actual knowledge-sharing behavior. 2. Some knowledge, such as the popular merit assessment, the salary, etc, can be integrated as the knowledge objects pools, as well as can be provided for some systems, such as Wikipedia, on purpose of the creation and the diffusion of the knowledge widely.
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Yang, James, and 楊易鑫. "The research among demographic variables,knowledge sharing perception, knowledge sharing." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01926564049891362986.
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管理研究所碩士班
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In the research in the field of information management in the past, we often change demography one (such as age, gender, academic credentials etc.) Deemed to control and change one, has not deepened the discussion. This research specially regards changing one in demography as and changes one by oneself, probe into it share relation of behavior to knowledge, and cognition grows up, knowledge cognition is threatened in order to interfere changing one with knowledge. This research object regards such staff members as the manufacturing industry of Taiwan and service trade,etc. as the sample of studying, so that the way in which the profit samples. The result of study is found: Between age and knowledge of professional knowledge share coefficient correlation and knowledge coefficient correlation to share behavior, knowledge of achievement of behavior appear positive correlation of showing all Share the behavior and has not shown with the knowledge of two kinds of classification knowledge relevantly in gender and academic credentials. In addition, share cognition and show with the other knowledge of kind two relevantly in academic credentials, share and grow up cognition and present positive correlation of showing with the knowledge of the professional knowledge in academic credentials, it is to defeat by apparently relevantly to share and threaten cognition with knowledge; Share and grow up cognition and present positive correlation of showing with the knowledge of the knowledge achievement in academic credentials, it is to defeat by apparently relevantly to share and threaten cognition with knowledge. Result of study can offer enterprise to recruit, or administrate executive, materials of manpower, consult staff can carry on measurement indicator one of that knowledge share future.
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Chen, Chun-Chi, and 陳俊錡. "Cultural Habits and Knowledge Sharing：A Study of Teaching Knowledge Sharing System." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64537378108399218465.
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The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of professors in the college if the knowledge management system（KMS） has been imported. The participants of this study are the teachers and students who use KMS from the university in the southern Taiwan. By narratives interviewing professors from different specialized fields about their knowledge share experiences, record their teaching interactions and experiences of using the knowledge share system, and observe them using the system to understand their difficult position when changing, and the successful experience when the system is imported into the traditional teaching process which they are used to use. The research finding indicates that cultural habits are the main forces that drive teachers’ acceptance of knowledge sharing system and their knowledge sharing behaviors. As teachers trying to adopt new knowledge sharing system in teaching, they experience the challenges of information technology usage in contrast with their teachers’ traditional role. They are afraid, yet they have no choice to defense the power of information system in advancing their teaching. This results a dilemma of changing or not to change in teaching patterns. A comprehensive description is shown in this research to provide the manifold of ambivalence of teachers. The research finding can provide the universities who are advocating teaching knowledge sharing systems in succeeding knowledge sharing between teachers and students.
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Lin, Shin-yi, and 林欣儀. "The effect of Knowledge Psychological Ownership on Knowledge Sharing Motivation and Knowledge Sharing Behavior." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24355591506270206159.
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碩士東吳大學
企業管理學系
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In the era of Knowledge Economy, how to promote knowledge sharing behavior effectively so that knowledge can be shared and spread in organization to play its value is a current important issue. As the knowledge embedded in the brain ofindividuals, we should focus on the motivation side to think about the factors that affect personal knowledge sharing behavior. Furthermore, we found the cognitive for knowledge and psychological emotional state are the important factors affect the formation of knowledge sharing motivation. Therefore, this study attempts to develop an integrated model of knowledge psychological ownership, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, and knowledge sharing behavior. This study attempts to investigate the knowledge sharing motivation and behavior among high-tech industry members. Data was collected from 25 high-tech firms through questionnaires. Using the statistic software(SPSS 12.0, AMOS 6.0) and SEM model to explore the analysis and verify the related assumptions. The results revealed that our knowledge psychological ownership is positively associated with four relational constructs of knowledge sharing motivation, namely, organizational reward, reciprocity, knowledge self-efficacy, enjoyment in helping others. In addition, organizational reward, reciprocity and enjoyment in helping others are positively associated with knowledge sharing behavior, but knowledge selfefficacy have no directly impacts on knowledge sharing behavior.
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Chen, Mei-Hua, and 陳美樺. "The Influence of Guanxi on Knowledge-sharing Intention and Knowledge-sharing Behavior." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04252031837198316718.
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碩士國立東華大學
國際企業學系
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In the last few years, several articles have been devoted to the study of interpersonal relationship and knowledge-sharing intention. However, whether a person will treat colleagues of different associations (Guanxi) differently on knowledge-sharing has never been clearly examined. Furthermore, they also neglected some other external factors which will influence the connection between knowledge-sharing intention and knowledge-sharing behavior. Adopt the within-subject design, this present study investigates how Guanxi improve knowledge-sharing intention, and also explores the moderating effects of self-efficacy and sharing opportunity between knowledge-sharing intention and knowledge-sharing behavior based on The Planned Behavior Theory (TPB). Total valid questionnaire is 242 copies. Using ANOCA and multiple-regression, the main findings of the study are as below: 1. Guanxi affects knowledge-sharing intention of an individual positively. 2. The interaction of self-efficacy and knowledge-sharing intention affects knowledge-sharing behavior positively. Individuals of high self-efficacy demonstrate stronger positive relationship between knowledge-sharing intention and knowledge-sharing behavior than those of low self-efficacy. Implications of the results are discussed in detail.
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Lee, Kuan-nai, and 李冠鼐. "An Exploratory Study of Individual Knowledge Sharing Experience Affect Knowledge Sharing Strategies." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53211240732602166617.
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碩士義守大學
管理研究所碩士班
94
Knowledge management is a more popular research topic recently. Most scholars and enterprisers emphasize on constructing information technology system to spread and share knowledge in organizations. In the personal level, we find that there were not many researches focusing on individual sharing strategies except for individual sharing behavior, and intention of sharing knowledge. This research studied the relationships among sharing stategies variables, internal variables, and employees’ experience of knowledge sharing in the organization. We classified the knowledge sharing experience into 3 types, i.e. direct sharing experience, indirect sharimg experience, and enjoyment of sharing experience. With the management strategy issued by Miles & Snow (1978), we group employees into four types: analyzer, defender, prospector and reactor.The questionnaires were sent to the on-the-job graduate student of graduate school of I-Shou University, and.there were 134 available responses of them. This research used logistic regression analysis and discriminant analysis to build the moedel of shaing strategies of organization members. Research results reveal that direct of knowledge sharing experience, and indirect of knowledge sharing experience have statistically significant impacts on the prospector of knowledge sharing strategy. In the aspects of the reactor sharing strategy, we discover the direct of knowledge sharing experience also significant impacts on the individual of knowledge sharing strategies. On the other hand, the three sharing experience doesn’t have statistically significant impacts on strategy. Overall, this research has provided a comprehensive framework of the impact factors of the employees’ knowledge sharing strategies of the organization memebers. Hopefully, it can serve as the foundation for future research and as an reference data for industry-wide executing KM system.
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王維劭. "Knowledge sharing Climate: It''s Antecedents and Effect on Employee Knowledge Sharing Behaviors." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16616824906821399619.
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碩士義守大學
管理科學研究所
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The key point of knowledge management is the employees, who willing share his knowledge. This study references the point of Schneider and Reichers（1983）to exploratory on development of knowledge sharing climate. We use three factors as variables: structure, SAA and interaction. The study is different from the passed research. We measure the level of the team and test it effect on organization members’ sharing behavior. And we want to find out the relationship between knowledge sharing climate and members’ knowledge sharing behavior. We interview to five managers and intend to understand the influence of the knowledge sharing climate. Accord to the result of the interview, we design the questionnaire. After factor analysis, we found five factors and named：〝active-promotion〞,〝informal interaction〞,〝organization construct〞,〝attraction〞and〝informal rating〞. Regression analysis result which we found, either individual or team level, the knowledge sharing climate had high influence with organization members’ knowledge sharing behavior. So we could conclude it, if we want to promote the knowledge sharing behavior of organization members, one of the best and effective ways is develop the knowledge sharing climate.
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Li, Ying-huei, and 李盈慧. "A web-based knowledge sharing behavior model development:testing on teaching knowledge-sharing platform." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39288888269145162011.
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碩士南華大學
資訊管理學系碩士班
97
Web-based knowledge sharing platform as a place for people interaction forms a virtual society on the cyberspace. In this virtual setting, individuals’ enactments are public presented under the gaze of others which is different from the use of traditional stand-alone personal computers that is closed and self-gazed. In this thesis, we take the lens of social expectation, face, others’ surveillance, self-monitoring, and self-efficacy to investigate and develop a web-based knowledge sharing behavior model by using teaching knowledge-sharing platform as testing example. Research findings show that in the platform, teachers care about how others perceived on them as a teacher. This social expectation, together with others’ surveillance in the platform, induces self-monitoring on their knowledge sharing behaviors. Teachers monitor their enactments to pursue their face in the virtual public setting. Our model contributes to the understanding of web-based knowledge sharing behaviors and has both theoretical and managerial implications.
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Wang, Pao-Yun, and 王寶雲. "The impact to knowledge sharing due to organizational factors, personal knowledge-sharing motivations and characteristic of knowledge." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35614038981785746161.
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碩士國立中央大學
人力資源管理研究所碩士在職專班
97
Nowadays in knowledge economy, the exploitation and sharing of knowledge play a predominant part in the creation of wealth. Drucker (1998) thought the enterprises should devote to explore and utilize the existing knowledge to promote the innovation of knowledge. However, most of the knowledge embedded in the brains of knowledge workers is not easy to be shared. Therefore, the firms try to encourage the knowledge workers to share and communicate their valuable knowledge, experience and information with others, so that the knowledge can be circulated, extended and stored broadly within the organization. After that, we can expect to leverage the core value though knowledge sharing. Spencer (2003) believed that employees share actively what they have known is unnatural behavior. Then what can we do to make the knowledge owner willing to share their precious knowledge? Thus, the present work interprets knowledge sharing and figures out the assumptions and basis of various perspectives, and exaimes the effects of organizational factors (knowledge-oriented culture and technology capability), personal motivations and the characteristics of knowledge on the behavior of behavior of knowledke sharing. To this end, the present work uses a case study and adopts a sample of 365 workers from a company by controlling their gender, education and service year. Based on the regression analysis, the empirical results show that：1. The knowledge-oriented culture inspired the knowledge sharing behavior. 2. The technology capability supported the knowledge sharing behavior. 3. The higher the inclination of altruism and mutualism was, the higher the inclination of knowledge sharing behavior was. 4. Our results didn’t support the hypothesis of the characteristics of knowledge. It is expected that the findings and suggestions can serve as a reference for the company practices and further studies.
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Tsai, Hsin-yu, and 蔡昕妤. "The moderating role of knowledge sharing perception in the relationship between Knowledge based ownership and Knowledge sharing." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29352082706936898496.
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碩士義守大學
管理研究所碩士班
95
Prior knowledge sharing research shows that in organization points of view, organization expects employees to share knowledge from organization justice and organization culture. In employees points of view, employees think knowledge sharing is a threat. Obviously, it is different from organization and employees. Prior theory discussed about psychology ownership found that reinforced ownership impelled employees to carry some activities. To date, knowledge sharing generally carries out yet. It still conceals some reason. We don’t directly understand employees’ mind. So we intend to explore employees’ mind and how to perceive knowledge sharing. The purpose of study examined the relationship between knowledge based ownership and knowledge sharing by knowledge sharing perception. A questionnaire survey comprising 156 samples was used. The results of the study demonstrates that (1) knowledge based ownership had a positive effect on knowledge sharing.(2) knowledge sharing perception- growth and threat in the relationship between knowledge based ownership and knowledge sharing had a moderating effect. According to research results, discussed why knowledge based ownership had a positive effect on knowledge sharing. We provide how to reinforce knowledge based ownership, how to elevate knowledge sharing perception-growth , and how to reduce knowledge sharing perception-threat. Finally, we provide some management practices and suggestion to business.