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A Comprehensive Relational Model of Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing: An Empirical Study

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  • Shang Shanshan

    (College of International Business, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China)

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This article aims to get the main factors affecting knowledge sharing and their influencing route so that to promote knowledge implementation through theory analysis and empirical test. The paper collects almost all the factors that have significant influence on knowledge sharing from a large amount of relative researches, and classifies the effect of factors as direct, indirect, mediate and moderate effect. Based on the deep review and analysis, the paper selects top management support, organization culture, social relationship, attitude to knowledge sharing, self-efficacy, trust, motivation, intention to knowledge sharing, IT, and training as the major influential factors and proposes a comprehensive relational model according to the effects of the factors. Finally, the paper verifies the model and examines the effects of the factors by empirical test through the data collected from questionnaires. The findings can give some guidance to managers and scholars.

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  • Shang Shanshan, 2014. "A Comprehensive Relational Model of Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing: An Empirical Study," International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM), IGI Global, vol. 10(1), pages 1-25, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jkm000:v:10:y:2014:i:1:p:1-25
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    1. Laila Naif Marouf & Naresh Kumar Agarwal, 2016. "Are Faculty Members Ready? Individual Factors Affecting Knowledge Management Readiness in Universities," Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(03), pages 1-28, September.

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