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How can intra-organisational knowledge sharing be analysed and actualised? What should organisations be aware of before implementing knowledge management and sharing programmes? The overall objective of this book is neither to give precise answers nor to propose an exact action plan, but rather to discuss the phenomena of intra-organisational knowledge sharing in its ´complexity´, shifting from a one-sided to a holistic view. The holistic approach relates to the contradictive reality of current knowledge management and knowledge sharing activities within organisations, taking up the challenge of analysing the internal process of knowledge sharing from three perspectives: social, economic and cultural. This methodical approach is a kind of ´re-construction and re-combination´, i.e. analysing and reflecting on existing literature sources, allocating them into theoretical perspectives, studying them comprehensively and synthesising them in a holistic model. The diversity of such perspectives as economic, social and cultural undogmatically widens the debate across disciplines. The main result of this research is the developed holistic model for knowledge sharing within organisations, which reproduces a general guiding framework for organisations, enabling them to analyse and question their knowledge sharing process and structure.

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