Knowledge Sharing

• Knowledge sharing intention is influenced by one’s structural position in the group and perception to the other peer.

Cross-Cultural Context

• In different cultural backgrounds, one’s perception of the other is often recognized and interpreted differently because perception forming process represents a culturally structured social norm that is grounded in language, attitude and belief.

Social Capital

• In a social boundary, organization members’ repeat interactions and relationships, and that stimulate trust and norms. Social capital is formed from this process as a structural function that is increasing mutual benefit (Putnam, 1995).

Research Problem

• In a cross cultural workplace setting, organization members often suffers unnecessary mistakes or lack of work involvement issue due to the lack of proper knowledge sharing.

• Heterogeneity of knowledge sharing motif is problematic when those group members mixed in a group without proper awareness of cultural diversity, or when a decision maker deal with communication and productivity under the joint project with other group who has difference cultural background and knowledge sharing motif.

• Having a proper understanding of network motif in knowledge sharing will be beneficial to encourage knowledge exchange and information flow between organization members

Research Question

• what are structural characteristics of the knowledge sharing in Korean and United States knowledge intensive work groups?

• how can the concept of social capital be used to examine or grow the knowledge sharing network in both countries work groups?

• what is the process of knowledge sharing network formation and which factors are influential toward that process?

• how do they interpret knowledge sharing behavior in each cultural context?

• how does their interpretation of knowledge sharing in different cultural context relate to their knowledge sharing network?

Purpose of Study

• This study aims to reveal how knowledge-sharing network is formed under the different cultural setting.

Overview

• To revealing complexity of knowledge sharing phenomena in socio-cultural perspective Quantitative and qualitative data

• Methodological process of converging both quantitative network data and qualitative interview data

• In order to advocate for awareness of determinant factors of knowledge sharing network in socio-cultural perspective.

Method Procedure

Method: ERGM

Method: Grounded Theory Approach

• Knowledge sharing is important in order to acquire competitive advantage.

• In globalized and internationalized workplace setting, importance of a proper awareness of knowledge sharing has emphasized.

• Knowledge sharing network is organization’s cultural product, and organization’s culture is influenced by nation’s culture.

• It is hard to explain knowledge sharing phenomena with solely used qualitative or quantitative research design.

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