دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی چگونگی تاثیرگذاری تخصیص های داخلی بر رفتار اشتراک گذاری دانش - امرالد 2017

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the effects of organizational and technological barriers to knowledge sharing between large and small firms through the lens of attribution theory. Design/methodology/approach – The structural equation modeling approach was applied to estimate the conceptual model by using survey data from a list of Taiwan’s top 1,000 manufacturing and 500 service companies. A total of 229 valid questionnaires were collected. Findings – The empirical results show that both organizational and technological barriers have relationships with an individual’s effort and ability with regard to knowledge sharing behavior. When organizational barriers occur, the perceived lack of effort has a direct effect on knowledge sharing behavior for large firms, while negative sharing behavior among employees of small firms is influenced by the perception of low ability through the perceived lack of effort. Originality/value – A review of the literature reveals organizational and technological barriers that lead to the negative influences of internal attributions on knowledge sharing. This study, therefore, contributes to a comprehensive perspective on how to encourage knowledge sharing behavior at different sizes of firms.

8. Limitations and future research

Although it has new findings, this study has the following limitations that need to be addressed by future research. First, although this study concentrates on exploring the effects of organizational and technological barriers on employees’ knowledge sharing behavior at firms of different sizes, it did not address the different situations of employees who work at large firms but distributed into several small units in different locations, and those who work at large firms and have centralized management in same location. In addition, younger employees may use technology to share knowledge more than older employees. The impacts of different employee ages and the average ages at large/small firms on the research model were not discussed in this study. As such, researchers may consider differences in firm size and division location in the sampling process, as well as the ages of employees at large/small firms. Such efforts would help in making a more comprehensive assessments of the issues examined this work.