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Informal networks and knowledge sharing in organizations: case study of GR Group
| Resumo: | In the era where knowledge and technology have been advancing, knowledge, together with capital and human resources, has become an essential productive factor, playing a vital role in economic growth and enterprise development. Moreover, knowledge-based economic growth relies principally on enterprise knowledge and technological innovation. Nowadays, communication channels have been evolving so rapidly that the types of knowledge sharing have transferred from traditional administrative orders to diversified, multi-channel and informal ways. From the perspective of networks, social platforms and social capital, more attention has been paid to employee behavior in the past few years. Compared to technology and knowledge innovation of the whole organization, growing emphasis has been placed on knowledge sharing of informal networks built by individual employees. As a supplement to formal organization system, informal network is characterized by versatility, background similarity and excellent communicability, defining its positive effect on knowledge sharing and interaction. Consequently, informal network is the key variable in the innovation performance of modern enterprises. Nevertheless, studies on the informal network of knowledge sharing mainly focus on the overall network instead of on network segmentation. Accordingly, knowledge sharing ways and channels is a research gap now. Therefore, it is essential to further delve deeper into informal networks as a closer scrutiny of such topic is of theoretical value and practical significance. |
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| Autores principais: | Tao Zehua |
| Assunto: | Knowledge sharing Informal networks Social network analysis GR Group Gestão Transferência de conhecimentos Educação informal Rede social |
| Ano: | 2018 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | ISCTE |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório ISCTE |
| Resumo: | In the era where knowledge and technology have been advancing, knowledge, together with capital and human resources, has become an essential productive factor, playing a vital role in economic growth and enterprise development. Moreover, knowledge-based economic growth relies principally on enterprise knowledge and technological innovation. Nowadays, communication channels have been evolving so rapidly that the types of knowledge sharing have transferred from traditional administrative orders to diversified, multi-channel and informal ways. From the perspective of networks, social platforms and social capital, more attention has been paid to employee behavior in the past few years. Compared to technology and knowledge innovation of the whole organization, growing emphasis has been placed on knowledge sharing of informal networks built by individual employees. As a supplement to formal organization system, informal network is characterized by versatility, background similarity and excellent communicability, defining its positive effect on knowledge sharing and interaction. Consequently, informal network is the key variable in the innovation performance of modern enterprises. Nevertheless, studies on the informal network of knowledge sharing mainly focus on the overall network instead of on network segmentation. Accordingly, knowledge sharing ways and channels is a research gap now. Therefore, it is essential to further delve deeper into informal networks as a closer scrutiny of such topic is of theoretical value and practical significance. |
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