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A theoretically grounded model to reduce the risk of knowledge loss in organisations: an energy company evaluation

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posted on 2016-11-11, 13:23 authored by Paul Parboteeah, Tom JacksonTom Jackson, Nicola Wilkinson
Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.The aim of the research was to determine the relationship between knowledge sharing and knowledge loss through creation of a conceptual model of factors affecting knowledge sharing and a conceptual toolkit, able to be used by managers as an analysis tool. A theoretical, constructive approach was taken to the research through the use of a theory-building methodology to create the conceptual model of factors affecting knowledge sharing in organisations. Empirical research was carried out using a case study at an energy infrastructure organisation in the UK through questionnaires and formal interviews to validate the model. A new conceptual model of factors affecting knowledge sharing was developed and evaluated, further improving the model. The empirical research showed validation of past literature and created additional elements to the model. The main limitation is that only one industry case study was used for empirical validation. This was due to the limited timeframe of the research, which suggests that further research should involve multiple case studies, covering a wide variety of industries. The model of factors affecting knowledge sharing allows managers to analyse their knowledge management strategies and offers suggestions of ways to reduce any risk of knowledge loss. There is a lack of conceptual models based on knowledge loss, and this paper aims to solve this issue. This will be useful to businesses, helping them to improve their knowledge management initiatives, retain knowledge and gain competitive advantage over competitors. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Knowledge and Process Management

Volume

23

Issue

3

Pages

171 - 183

Citation

PARBOTEEAH, P., JACKSON, T. and WILKINSON, N., 2016. A theoretically grounded model to reduce the risk of knowledge loss in organisations: an energy company evaluation. Knowledge and Process Management, 23(3), pp. 171-183.

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© Wiley

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016

Notes

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: PARBOTEEAH, P., JACKSON, T. and WILKINSON, N., 2016. A theoretically grounded model to reduce the risk of knowledge loss in organisations: an energy company evaluation. Knowledge and Process Management, 23(3), pp. 171-183, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1502. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

ISSN

1092-4604

eISSN

1099-1441

Language

  • en