ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Knowledge Sharing, Ingroups And Outgroups, Individualism
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The openness of knowledge sharing within organisations: a comparative study of the united states and the people"s republic of china (chow et. al 2000) This study tries to examine the interaction effects of national culture and contextual factors on employees" tendency to share knowledge with co-workers. China and us, the study focuses on two aspects: self vs collective interest and whether knowledge sharing involved a conflict between self and collective interest. Chinese vs us national"s openness of knowledge sharing is related to their different degrees of collectivism. National culture and its expected effects on knowledge sharing. National culture influences a person"s actions either by supplying thee values toward which the actions are oriented or by shaping a variety of strategies of action in which certain patterns of action are facilitated while others are discouraged. Individualism/collectivism seem as a basic value to distinguish members of different cultural groups.
