Influencing Factors and Promotion Strategies of Knowledge Sharing in Research Teams

This study investigates knowledge sharing among research teams within a four-level framework of factors affecting and encouraging knowledge sharing. Drawn from social exchange theory, theory of planned behavior, and knowledge management theory, the analysis assesses factors of influence at four levels: individual (competence, motivation, perception), team (trust, psychological safety, leadership), organizational (policies, culture, incentives), and technological (integration, tools, platforms). Concurrent strategies are defined at all levels, with their interplay as the focus. Implications are that successful knowledge sharing calls for systematic intervention of all levels simultaneously, not interventions in discrete fashion. Technology, lacking social and cultural roots, cannot function, and team dynamics must have organizational scaffolding for long-term sustainability. Within areas of conceptual orientation as a paradigm, this research neither empirically investigates nor considers differences between disciplines that uncover lines of further research.