ABSTRACT

Tacit Knowledge Sharing (TKS) becomes vital for new knowledge creation. Knowledge creation process encourages the view of knowledge as a public good while knowledge appropriation process encourages knowledge to be viewed as a private good. This paper studies the impact of these views about knowledge on TKS. Based on social interdependency theory, four workplace relationships were identified for studying TKS. “Knowledge as a public good” and “knowledge as a private good” were used as indicator variables. Using OLS regression, the four proposed models were tested. Data for the study was obtained from a questionnaire-based survey of 184 research students. The results revealed “knowledge as non-exclusive” to be a positive predictor of TKS. Viewing knowledge as a private good had a negative relationship with TKS. Implications for research and practitioners are discussed.

摘要

隐性知识共享 (TKS) 对于新知识的创造变得至关重要。知识创造过程鼓励将知识视为公共物品，而知识挪用过程鼓励将知识视为私人物品。本文研究了这些关于知识的观点对 TKS 的影响。基于社会相互依赖理论，确定了四种工作场所关系来研究 TKS。“作为公共物品的知识”和“作为私人物品的知识”被用作指标变量。使用 OLS 回归，测试了四个提出的模型。该研究的数据来自对 184 名研究生的问卷调查。结果显示，“非排他性知识”是 TKS 的积极预测因素。将知识视为私人物品与 TKS 呈负相关。