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Understanding the Factors Influencing the Value of Person-to-Person Knowledge Sharing
Kauai, Hawaii January 04-January 07
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.516Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii ...
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Susan A. Brown, University of Arizona
Alan R. Dennis, Indiana University
Diana B. Gant, National Science Foundation
It is generally accepted that knowledge sharing is a difficult task for organizations. Many reasons for this difficulty have been proposed. In this paper, we offer another. Specifically, we build on Zander and Kogut?s work [29] and examine the relationship between knowledge dimensions and knowledge sharing. Departing from their study, we focus on person-to-person, rather than organization-to-organization, knowledge sharing. We surveyed 68 employees of a Workman?s Compensation Board in Canada. To analyze the data, we employed Hierarchical Linear Modeling. The results demonstrate that complexity and teachability increased person-to-person knowledge sharing but observability did not. Contrary to expectations, the availability of codified knowledge in a knowledge management system (KMS) had no impact on person-to-person knowledge transfer; individuals were as likely to share knowledge person-to-person regardless of whether there was a KMS available that contained appropriate knowledge.
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Susan A. Brown, Alan R. Dennis, Diana B. Gant, "Understanding the Factors Influencing the Value of Person-to-Person Knowledge Sharing," hicss, vol. 7, pp.146b, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06) Track 7, 2006
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