EXPLORATORY RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCING FACTORS OF TEAM KNOWLEDGE SHARING
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As the mainstream of knowledge management, knowledge sharing is especially important. In this era of knowledge economy, it is impossible to reflect the value of knowledge if the knowledge cannot be well disseminated and used. It can form the core competitiveness of the enterprise by understanding the relevant factors that affect knowledge sharing and solving knowledge sharing problems in enterprises. Existing literature on knowledge sharing are limited to the studies on the means, obstacles and management of knowledge sharing, and most of them study the influencing factors of knowledge management by adopting empirical research methods. In this paper, 20 interviewees with teamwork experience were selected, and in-depth interviews were performed by adopting semi-structured interviews to learn about the typical cases they provided; meanwhile, the content of the case was refined, analyzed and coded through grounded analysis. Then, 13 factors affecting knowledge sharing were obtained, and they were summarized and classified into 6 categories according to their attributes including perceptual factors, behavioral factors, predisposing factors, ability factors and interpersonal factors. The results of this study provide certain guiding significance for the process of knowledge sharing.
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