Fostering Engagement in Knowledge Sharing: The Role of Perceived Benefits, Costs and Visibility

Knowledge sharing is an organisational process that is essential to create and maintain sustained competitive advantage by organisations to react quickly to changing external circumstances. Participation of employees is a major challenge to facilitate knowledge sharing within organisations. Knowledge exchange channels have been developed in...

Employees’ participation in electronic networks of practice within a corporate group: perceived benefits and costs

This paper explores benefits and costs of knowledge exchange perceived by individuals in connected electronic networks of practice (ENoP) in a corporate setting. The results of 25 semi-structured interviews show 9 perceived benefits and 5 perceived costs to be of importance for knowledge exchange. Altruism and reciprocity are the two main...

Knowledge Contribution in Knowledge Networks: Effects of Participants’ Central Positions on Contribution Quality

Knowledge networks play a crucial role in contemporary organisations to improve participation for knowledge sharing. Examining employees’ knowledge contribution play an important role for in success implementing knowledgenetworks. Whereas most part of studies emphasis on the quantity aspect of knowledge contributions, the success of knowledge...

Exploration of multi-layered knowledge sharing participation: the roles of perceived benefits and costs

This paper explores participants’ perceived benefits and costs that influence the quantity and the quality of voluntary participation in knowledge networks in a resources-constrained economy. A conceptual model of perceived benefits and costs of knowledge sharing is designed on the basis of literature. The influence of perceived benefit and cost...

Exploration Participants Engagement in Organisational Knowledge Sharing

The importance of knowledge sharing within most organisations is well recognised. While abundant KM systems have been matured to encourage individual engagement in knowledge sharing, practical evidences show a low success rate of KM systems. This paper reports on a qualitative exploratory multi-case study to explore level participants’...

Energy balance at the soil atmosphere interface

Soil atmospheric interactions play an important role within the thermal energy balance and seasonal temperature variations of the ground. This paper presents a formulation for the surface boundary conditions related to interactions between soil and atmosphere. The boundary condition formulated considers heat flow at the soil–atmosphere interface...

Geochemical modelling of hydrogen gas migration in an unsaturated bentonite buffer

This paper presents an investigation of the transport and fate of hydrogen gas through compacted bentonite buffer. Various geochemical reactions that may occur in the multiphase and multicomponent system of the unsaturated bentonite buffer are considered. A reactive gas transport model, developed within an established coupled thermal, hydraulic,...

Investigating relationship between self- and co-regulatory learning processes in a workplace e-learning system

While supporting regulatory learning processes in work environments is increasingly becoming important, there is not a clear picture of the interaction between self- and coregulatory processes performed by learners in workplace e-learning systems. In this paper, by following a design-based research methodology, we develop a theory-based...

An Agent-mediated Approach to Promote Knowledge Sharing Through Enterprise Social Networks

Broadening adoption of social network tools within the enterprise suggests a new and valuable source for insight into the social structure through organizations. While online social media tools are being evolved by enterprises in recent years, the social media are used much for knowledge sharing. This paper focuses on how enterprise social...

"Second order" exploratory data analysis of the large scale gas injection test (lasgit) dataset, focused around known gas migration events

Within large-scale experimental datasets a wealth of small scale information can typically be found. An example of such an experiment is the Large Scale Gas Injection Test (Lasgit). A toolkit has been developed to facilitate the investigation of the small scale or ‘second order’ detail contained within Lasgit’s dataset. Results obtained through...

Knowledge Management: Review of the Critical Success Factors and Development of a Conceptual Classification Model

Knowledge management is a critical issue in today's business world. Knowledge is considered as one of the most strategic resources of the firm and sources of competitive advantage. This research provides a comprehensive review of the literature on the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and identifies eight major factor's clusters that influence the...