Abstract:
Knowledge sharing among employees in organisations is vital for
achieving competitive advantages. Different researches discussed about a range
of predictors of knowledge sharing. This review was to deduce all the possible
factors or determinants of knowledge sharing in the existing literature and
identified several interesting possible directions for future research. Secondary
data have been used for the entire study. The analysis showed that there are a
number of factors that affect the knowledge sharing. The paper discussed and
analysed the views, opinions and findings of different researchers about the
same. This paper has proposed a new meaningful concentric model to classify
the antecedents of knowledge sharing. This summarised all antecedents into
four domains. As such, factors which are directly relevant to individual fall in
the individual domain. While, the group domain includes those factors that
cannot be meaningfully or practically separated from a context of interaction
with peers, the organisation domain includes factors that are organisationally
relevant. Factors with national domain subsume those factors that can be
enacted only across the boundary of the organisation. This paper brings
together a large range of antecedents of knowledge sharing. Implications and
directions for future studies are also discussed.
