Innovation Capability in the Manufacturing Sector: A Review in the Perspective of Knowledge Sharing Factors

摘要

Innovation is a crucial issue for organizations to stay competitive especially in the manufacturing sector. As such, knowledge sharing is required to ensure the effectiveness of innovation. Knowledge sharing supports organization in fulfilling customers' needs and wants. Besides that, factors that enhance knowledge sharing among employees will bring a lot of benefits to the organization itself such as enabling employees to come out with new idea and be innovative in their organization. In this paper, the authors had identified and discussed several factors that will lead to knowledge sharing intention among employees and its impact on innovation capability. These factors are leadership, trust, reward system and technology.