Posted by prac on August 06, 2002 at 14:23:07:

In Reply to: Re: Knowledge Sharing Incentives-Research posted by TMalik on August 05, 2002 at 14:29:53:

Hi again TMalik

I have been doing some thinking, and I realize you may be coming up against a problem most of us face today, namely getting the best quality product out of the door within the shortest possible time. You must be screaming by now; "Where is my framework!" ;-)

We cannot understand everything, though many of us here wish we could. I don't think you can answer your question in a general sense. I do think you should focus your study on an organization, which would qualify by general opinion, as a "benchmark" organization as far as knowledge issues and aspects are concerned. A university might offer a good case study in this regard.

However, one would not easily be able to convince everyone, and in my opinion as a non-academic, especially the academic world, that your research was exhaustive and comprehensive enough. As you would well know, you have to:

1) Formulate the question correctly.
2) Address the question in such a way as to add value to the research field.

I do not think a questionnaire would be enough of a tool with regards to such a comprehensive question.

If, however, you wish to research knowledge sharing as a phenomenon, then I would suggest you cast your net wide and far. Origins, history, evolution, events impacting the phenomenon, and current-future trends. One may discover a knowledge sharing lifecycle and/or custom in the process, but time will tell. I would suspect this has been done before, so it would be a matter of building on that which has gone before.

The information base you fostered via this discussion, on this site alone, could yield significant insight into the subject.

May I suggest, you formulate your question in such a manner as to allow yourself the time and space to address the question adequately.

Alternately, highlight the nature of this socially-interactive behavior. May I refer you to a book called "The Sociology of Knowledge." It makes for fairly exhaustive reading, but it does contain most-valubale material, in my opinion.

For more "concrete" ideas about knowledge I would suggest two books called "Intellectual Capital", and "Co-opetition" respectively. I think they do present the "nature" of knowledge as a product, when one reads in-between the lines.

Regards,

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