TY - GEN
T1 - Critical factors affecting the firm to share knowledge with trading partners
T2 - 7th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, ICEC05
AU - Ke, Weiling
AU - Wei, Kwok Kee
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The sharing of knowledge, including information and know-how, if properly managed, allows the participating firms to enhance operation efficiency and decision making effectiveness. While there is a substantive research on the potential benefits of knowledge sharing, we do not have enough understanding of the factors leading firms to share knowledge. Drawing upon Transaction Cost Economics and Socio-political theories, we derive a research model to study the antecedent factors of firm's decision on whether to share knowledge with its trading partners. The theoretical model derived is tested by data collected with six companies, which had been sharing information and know-how with some of their trading partners. Implication and contributions of this study are discussed. Copyright 2005 ACM.
AB - The sharing of knowledge, including information and know-how, if properly managed, allows the participating firms to enhance operation efficiency and decision making effectiveness. While there is a substantive research on the potential benefits of knowledge sharing, we do not have enough understanding of the factors leading firms to share knowledge. Drawing upon Transaction Cost Economics and Socio-political theories, we derive a research model to study the antecedent factors of firm's decision on whether to share knowledge with its trading partners. The theoretical model derived is tested by data collected with six companies, which had been sharing information and know-how with some of their trading partners. Implication and contributions of this study are discussed. Copyright 2005 ACM.
KW - knowledge sharing
KW - power
KW - transaction cost economics
KW - trust
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77953861203
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/pubmetrics.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77953861203&origin=recordpage
U2 - 10.1145/1089551.1089586
DO - 10.1145/1089551.1089586
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 1595931120
SN - 9781595931122
VL - 113
SP - 177
EP - 183
BT - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Y2 - 15 August 2005 through 17 August 2005
ER -