Sergeeva, Anastasia and Andreeva, Tatiana
(2015)
Knowledge Sharing Research: Bringing
Context Back In.
Journal of Management Inquiry, 25 (3).
pp. 240-261.
ISSN 1056-4926
Abstract
In response to the calls for more context-aware theorizing, in this essay we review the empirical research on individual
knowledge sharing behavior in organizations, with a specific focus on the context in which employees share knowledge.
We build on the “Who? / Where? / Why? / What?” framework to “flesh out” the contexts of the empirical studies on
individual knowledge sharing published in top-level journals. Mapping the researched contexts, we indicate several biases
of the literature as well as point to under-investigated spaces, suggesting theoretical dimensions, their contrasts, and new
empirical settings that are missing from the major stream of knowledge sharing studies. We also find that context has been
scarcely accounted for in the existing literature, discuss the reasons for it, show how accounting for context can be used to
re-interpret some contradictions in existing literature, and suggest some ways to move forward.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
knowledge management; knowledge sharing; knowledge exchange; context; knowledge work; literature review;
contextualization; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: |
11337 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492615618271 |
| Depositing User: |
Tatiana Andreeva
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| Date Deposited: |
17 Oct 2019 13:25 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Journal of Management Inquiry |
| Publisher: |
Sage |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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