Hoarding and Sharing Knowledge Flow Knowledge Management

Hoarding and Sharing

The more that information is shared between individuals, the more opportunities for knowledge creation occur. There is, however, a risk in sharing what you know, because in most cases, individuals are most commonly rewarded for what they know, not what they share. As a result, hoarding of knowledge often leads to negative consequences such as empire building, reinvention of wheels, feelings of isolation, and resistance to ideas from outside an organization.

• - Seven companies develop innovative strategies that encourage knowledge sharing. By Larry Stevens.
  
• - Paper examines knowledge sharing in business environments and cultures that are hostile to knowledge sharing. By Snejina Michailova and Kenneth Husted. Download in PDF format.
  
• - Describes both near- and long-term issues underlying an initiative to address concerns about preserving existing knowledge bases and of sharing, reusing, and building on them.
  
• - Discusses why people hoard knowledge and what firms can do to eliminate the problem. By Jamie S. Walters.
  
• - Discusses research that claims that high-performing employees are more likely to proactively share information with colleagues. By Rachel Fielding.
  
• - Agencies find incentives can encourage the reluctant to share what they know. By Sara Michael in Federal Computer Week.
  
• - Directory for information and software related to the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort. Features papers, e-mail lists, ontolingua and software library.
  
• - Discusses the barriers to sharing and offers pointers to overcome them. By David J. Skyrme.
  
• - Examines Factors such as the strength of the relationship between the knowledge seeker and the knowledge source, the difference between competence-based and benevolence-based trust and the type of knowledge being exchanged. By Lisa Abrams, Rob Cross, Eric
  
• - Article discusses how the three types of knowledge workers differ and that all need transparency. By Don Tapscott.
  
  

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