Extracting the pattern of inhibitors and facilitators of knowledge sharing using metacombination method

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1 Corresponding Author: Ph.D. Candidate, Imam Hussein Comprehensive University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Imam Hussein Comprehensive University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Public Administration, Shushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shushtar, Iran.

Abstract

Maintaining a competitive advantage in conditions of uncertainty in the environment of preservation and promotion is one of the most basic concerns in public and non-governmental sector organizations, which factors such as the demographic composition of the workforce, organizational leaders' greater emphasis on human capital issues, the crisis of employee participation, the challenge of adapting organizations to changes in the environment And.. it has been effective in the emergence of this concern in organizational leaders and has required them to rely on organizational knowledge management methods for success in the work environment and maintaining and managing knowledge workers. Based on this, developing a model of obstacles and facilitators of organizational knowledge sharing has become one of the priority needs of public and non-governmental sector organizations, and the current research has emerged as a way to present this model.In this research, Sandelowski and Barroso's meta-combination method has been used to extract the pattern of inhibitors and facilitators of knowledge sharing, and since the analysis and final report of the findings of the selected studies can provide a comprehensive picture, the meta-combination of studies has been considered; As a result, 263 sources were selected through a comprehensive search of sources through international websites, and 65 relevant sources were selected based on the entry and exit criteria. Following the findings of the studies based on data analysis and open coding, 65 codes were extracted, and after the final analysis and summary, the results were obtained in the form of 43 sub-concepts, 10 concepts and 2 categories. Quality monitoring was achieved through the comprehensiveness of the number of sources, the use of international reliable sources, identification in different time frames, the use of identifying researchers, detailed presentation of findings, and the approval of organizational knowledge management experts. The findings showed that the barriers and facilitators of knowledge sharing include individual (14 codes), technical (9 codes), organizational (11 codes), cultural (6 codes) and geographical (3 codes) factors. As a result, the identified factors were used in the design of an exploitable model to strengthen knowledge sharing in the mentioned organizations

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Strategic Management of Organizational Knowledge
Volume 5, Issue 3 - Serial Number 18
September 2022
Pages 111-150

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  • Receive Date: 03 June 2022
  • Revise Date: 26 July 2022
  • Accept Date: 27 July 2022

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