An Empirical Study on the Influencing Factors of Knowledge Sharing in Project Context

Abstract

The article makes a comparative research on the effect of leader supporting, interpersonal relationship, knowledge sharing mechanisms and organizational incentive on the formal and informal knowledge sharing in the project context. Through the establishment of structural equation model, some conclusions have been reached as follows: Firstly, leader supporting positively influences both formal and informal knowledge sharing, whereas the interpersonal relationship partly mediates between leader supporting and informal knowledge sharing; Moreover, the interpersonal relationship has a significant effect on both formal and informal knowledge sharing; Sharing mechanisms can significantly promote formal knowledge sharing, but there is no direct impact on informal side. Instead, the interpersonal relationship plays a fully mediating role between sharing mechanism and informal sharing; Finally, organizational incentive has a significant promotion on formal sharing, but negatively influences the informal sharing.

Research on the influencing factors of knowledge transfer among construction workers based on social cognitive theory

“…, 2019; Sun et al. , 2019; Wei and Li, 2014). Other scholars have highlighted the importance of organizational culture (Ni et al.…”

“…After carefully checking the questionnaires and excluding invalid questionnaires (such as those with missed answers, the same answers, apparent regularity in choosing the same answer from multiple consecutive questions and multiple answers to the same question), we finally obtained 288 valid interview samples, for a valid response rate of 58.41%. Wei and Li (2014) argued that the low survey response rate in the construction industry is characteristic of this industry. Rowley (2014) claimed that 20% could be considered a reasonable response rate.…”

“…Some scholars have contended that knowledge is likely to be transferred through socialization activities (Gunasekera and Chong, 2018;Zaidi and Davies, 2011). The relationships between members, such as trust and reciprocal relationships, positively affect the willingness and effectiveness of knowledge transfer (Zhou et al, 2020;Ren et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2019;Wei and Li, 2014). Other scholars have highlighted the importance of organizational culture (Ni et al, 2018;Yazan, 2018;Owusu-Manu et al, 2018).…”