KM, culture and compromise: interventions to promote knowledge sharing supported by technology in corporate environments

@article{citeulike:1959890, abstract = {The theme of knowledge sharing is discussed extensively in the knowledge management literature. Such work tends to focus on the barriers that impede knowledge sharing activity. Of these culture' is commonly cited as a major obstacle. This article examines what is meant by the term culture'. In the context of efforts to promote good practice in knowledge management, it is argued that straightforward reference to culture as a barrier to knowledge sharing is inadequate. Rather, firms should be looking at power issues and, in particular, organizational politics to explain success and failure in attempts to motivate knowledge sharing. The domain of sociotechnical studies is considered as a means of unpicking cultural issues at work in specific environments through the deployment of actor-network theory to identify shifting organizational power relationships. 10.1177/0165551506070708}, author = {Hall, Hazel and Goody, Melanie }, citeulike-article-id = {1959890}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551506070708}, journal = {Journal of Information Science}, keywords = {ant, boundaries, culture, information\_spaces, km, organizations}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {181--188}, posted-at = {2007-11-22 15:54:03}, priority = {3}, title = {KM, culture and compromise: interventions to promote knowledge sharing supported by technology in corporate environments}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551506070708}, volume = {33}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1959890 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1959890 N2 - The theme of knowledge sharing is discussed extensively in the knowledge management literature. Such work tends to focus on the barriers that impede knowledge sharing activity. Of these culture' is commonly cited as a major obstacle. This article examines what is meant by the term culture'. In the context of efforts to promote good practice in knowledge management, it is argued that straightforward reference to culture as a barrier to knowledge sharing is inadequate. Rather, firms should be looking at power issues and, in particular, organizational politics to explain success and failure in attempts to motivate knowledge sharing. The domain of sociotechnical studies is considered as a means of unpicking cultural issues at work in specific environments through the deployment of actor-network theory to identify shifting organizational power relationships. 10.1177/0165551506070708 IS - 2 JF - Journal of Information Science EP - 188 TI - KM, culture and compromise: interventions to promote knowledge sharing supported by technology in corporate environments VL - 33 SP - 181 KW - ant KW - boundaries KW - culture KW - information_spaces KW - km KW - organizations AU - Hall, Hazel AU - Goody, Melanie PY - 2007/04/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551506070708 ER -