Knowledge sharing is a significant component of success in knowledge management. In Saudi Arabia, knowledge management is often lacking when it comes to knowledge sharing adoption, especially between academic staff. This research aims to investigate various factors of knowledge sharing adoption for eLearning communities in Saudi Arabia and to examine the effect of culture as a moderating role on the relationships between these factors and academics’ attitude. Therefore, a framework is aimed at sharing knowledge within the eLearning communities is developed. Data has been collected from public universities in Saudi Arabia. Partial Least Square approach has been applied to analyse the data. The results show individual factors (such as openness in communication, interpersonal trust) and technology acceptance factors (perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use) significantly influence knowledge sharing attitude, while the relationship between people self-motivation and knowledge sharing attitude is insignificant. Subjective norm and attitude significantly impact behavioral intention toward knowledge sharing adoption in Saudi universities’ eLearning communities.

知识共享是知识管理成功的重要组成部分。在沙特阿拉伯，知识共享的采用通常缺乏知识管理，尤其是在教职员工之间。这项研究旨在调查沙特阿拉伯电子学习社区采用知识共享的各种因素，并研究文化在这些因素与学者态度之间的关系中起的调节作用。因此，开发了旨在在电子学习社区内共享知识的框架。数据是从沙特阿拉伯的公立大学收集的。偏最小二乘方法已应用于分析数据。结果显示出各个因素（例如沟通的开放性，人际信任）和技术接受因素（感知的实用性和感知的易用性）在很大程度上影响知识共享态度，而人们的自我激励与知识共享态度之间的关系则微不足道。主观规范和态度极大地影响了沙特大学电子学习社区中知识共享采用的行为意图。