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Knowledge sharing success and resistance in an engineering department: A case study

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The centrality of knowledge sharing to organizations’ sustainability has been established. This research explores and illustrates the influences for individual professionals and paraprofessionals – specifically civil engineers and design drafters – to share their deep, personally constructed knowledge, in a public sector provider of railways infrastructure. It investigates the extent to which: (i) knowledge sharing will be positively influenced by the professional identity, values and knowledge culture to achieve organizational and project goals; and (ii) sharing of deep personal expertise will be influenced by the quality of relational capital among individuals and individual perspectives. It finds that knowledge sharing develops within frameworks established through the alignment among sector, profession and organization values. However, individual behavior is found to be most strongly influenced by the presence and quality of relational capital and individuals’ personal perspectives.

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  • Gardiner, Claire M, 2016. "Knowledge sharing success and resistance in an engineering department: A case study," Journal of Management & Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 22(2), pages 254-271, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jomorg:v:22:y:2016:i:02:p:254-271_00
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    1. Abdullah Almuqrin & Ibrahim Mutambik, 2021. "The explanatory power of social cognitive theory in determining knowledge sharing among Saudi faculty," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(3), pages 1-24, March.
    2. Amitabh Anand & Piera Centobelli & Roberto Cerchione, 2020. "Why should I share knowledge with others? A review-based framework on events leading to knowledge hiding," Post-Print hal-02870014, HAL.

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