Knowledge sharing in highereducation institutions Perspectives from Malaysia

摘要

Purpose — This paper seeks to examine the factors and barriers that contribute to successfulknowledge sharing among the university teaching staff.Design/methodology/approach — Based on an extensive review of literature, measures ofknowledge sharing are identified. These include such factors as nature of knowledge, working culture,staff attitudes, motivation to share and opportunities to share. A model is developed for the study andhypotheses are formulated. Primary data were collected through a survey from a sample of teachingstaff from both public and private universities in Malaysia.Findings — Based on empirical research, the study shows some contrasting findings. As for thesample drawn from teaching staff belonging to public universities, there is a significant relationshipbetween knowledge sharing and the independent factors mentioned earlier. Results from the samplefrom staff teaching in private universities do not show such relationships.