Author(s)

Tingting Zheng

School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Knowledge is the organization’s most important strategic resource that can provide organizations with a sustainable competitive advantage; at the same time, knowledge management depends on knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing is affected by multi-level factors: Organizational level, team level and individual level factors; some will promote knowledge sharing, and some will have a negative impact. Therefore, this paper reviews the concepts of knowledge sharing and the related factors that affect knowledge sharing. Finally, this paper proposes future research directions about knowledge sharing.

Knowledge Sharing, Formation Process, Influential Factors

Zheng, T. (2017) A Literature Review on Knowledge Sharing. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 51-58. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.53006.