Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13147819
Keywords
cultural values; knowledge sharing; tacit knowledge; explicit knowledge; knowledge management
Funding
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana [008709]
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The study found that cultural values are related to knowledge sharing behavior, with uncertainty avoidance, individualism-collectivism, and paternalism being correlated with knowledge sharing, while power distance and masculinity-femininity are not correlated with knowledge sharing.
The current research studied the relationship between cultural values and tacit and explicit knowledge sharing behavior in the context of sustainable organizations. The sample consisted of 751 workers from Colombian organizations. It was found that sharing explicit and tacit knowledge correlated with the cultural dimensions of uncertainty avoidance, individualism-collectivism, and paternalism. On the other side, sharing tacit and explicit knowledge did not correlate with the cultural dimensions of power distance and masculinity-femininity. For organizational managers interested in knowledge sharing, a lesson is to facilitate environments of low uncertainty, care about the needs of workers, and have high collective values such as respect and interest in what others do. These values are essential for the promotion of knowledge sharing, which in turn contributes to sustainable organizations. From the theoretical point of view, the study opens a new line of research that integrates cultural studies and knowledge management to investigate the differential impact of cultural values on tacit and explicit knowledge sharing in organizational contexts.
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