Research On Risk Evaluation And Control Strategies Of Knowledge Sharing In An Organization

In the era of knowledge economy, economic development depends more on the production, diffusion and application of knowledge. Knowledge has already become the source of an organization to continuously obtain competitive advantages. It is necessary for an organization to learn more knowledge. With the constant accumulation, there is so much knowledge that it must get effective managed, and then, knowledge management arises. Knowledge sharing is one of the key contents of knowledge management. The reason why knowledge sharing is so important is that knowledge, as a kind of special economic resource, can fully realize its economic worth only after it is owned to the organization by the way of being shared. Some uncertain factors such as the complicated environment that an organization is in, unique attributes of knowledge and non-contractual attribute and motive factors in knowledge sharing may impair the validity of knowledge sharing and knowledge management, and even do harm to the safety of the organization, which is the risk of knowledge sharing in an organization. This paper studies the evaluation and control strategies of knowledge sharing risk in an organization on not only theory but methods. The main work is summarized as follows:(1) The relevant concepts of knowledge sharing are introduced. The recent research on knowledge sharing is briefly reviewed. And the main research problems in this paper are involved.(2) Four factors are found out, which lead to the risk of knowledge sharing in an organization. They include structure risk, culture risk, personnel risk and technology risk. An index system is set up to evaluate the risk by virtue of questionnaire investigation and statistical analysis.(3) Three methods are provided to evaluate the risk, namely, simple weight...