Extraction of the Key Dimensions of Knowledge Sharing

Subject Areas : Industrial Management

Masoume Sadat Mousavi ¹ , Hessam Zandhessami ²

1 - Department of Management, Qazvin Islamic Azad University (QIAU), Qazvin, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin Islamic Azad University (QIAU), Qazvin, Iran

Received: 2016-02-21 Accepted : 2016-07-18 Published : 2017-02-06

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Abstract :

In these days, the most important wealth of organizations is the knowledge that they have. So successful organizations have the most useful, reliable and up to date business knowledge and use them appropriately. In this situation, knowledge sharing as a complex and value creating activity is the foundation of many organizational strategies. Therefore identify the factors and effective dimensions of knowledge sharing and being aware of the impact of each of them could help organizations to adopt appropriate strategies of improving knowledge sharing in the organization. So this study analyzed ten effective factors of knowledge sharing in three Key dimensions involve individual, organizational and technological and investigated the impact of them on knowledge sharing by using structural equation modeling (SEM) with LISREL software. According to the results, significant relations approved in all of the fields that we worked on and it shows that personality is the most influential factor of individual dimension, the structure is the most influential factor of organizational dimension and ICT literacy is the most influential factor of technological dimension. On the other hand, based on results, despite the clear impact of all three dimensions, the organizational dimension has the greatest impact on knowledge sharing in organizations.

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