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Knowledge sharing is part of the knowledge management process. [4] Apart from traditional face-to-face knowledge sharing, social media is a good tool because it is convenient, efficient, and widely used. [5] Organizations have recognized that knowledge constitutes a valuable intangible asset for creating and sustaining competitive advantages. [6]
The balance between knowledge sharing and knowledge protection is a critical dilemma faced by organizations today. [86] [79] While sharing knowledge can lead to innovation, collaboration, and competitive advantage, protecting knowledge can prevent it from being misused, misappropriated, or lost.
Knowledge tends to be both tacit and personal; the knowledge one person has is difficult to quantify, store, and retrieve for someone else to use. Knowledge transfer (KT) and knowledge sharing (KS) are sometimes used interchangeably or are considered to share common features. Since some knowledge management researchers assume that these two ...
Knowledge sharing has received a lot of attention in research and business practice both within and outside organizations and its different levels. [ 2 ] Sharing knowledge is not only about giving it to others, but it also includes searching, locating, and absorbing knowledge.
Disseminating (sharing) research. Public members help sharing the findings of research. They can be consulted on the ways of dissemination, help summarising the research in plain language, work on accessibility issues. Implementing research. Public members influencing how the result is taken into practice and making sure it leads to action. [22]
Wasko and Faraj describe three kinds of knowledge: knowledge as object, knowledge embedded within individuals, and knowledge embedded in a community. [12] CoPs are associated with finding, sharing, transferring, and archiving knowledge, as well as making explicit "expertise", or articulating tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge is considered to be ...
A knowledge broker is an intermediary (an organization or a person), that aims to develop relationships and networks with, among, and between producers and users of knowledge by providing linkages, knowledge sources, and in some cases knowledge itself, (e.g. technical know-how, market insights, research evidence) to organizations in its network.
Knowledge functions date from c. 450 BC, with the Library of Alexandria, [dubious – discuss] but their modern roots can be linked to the emergence of information management in the 1970s. [25] Knowledge processes (preserving, sharing, integration) are performed by professional groups, as part of a knowledge management program.