Research on Knowledge Sharing Behavior Based on Knowledge Convening and Fermenting Model

Research on Knowledge Sharing Behavior Based on Knowledge Convening and Fermenting Model

Despite of the fact that knowledge sharing has become the focus of current literature and management practice, the core process of knowledge sharing has not been identified. What are the main barriers and incentives for people to share their knowledge, what is the internal mechanism of knowledge sharing, and how people evaluate the benefit coming from knowledge sharing are the core areas in knowledge management. In this paper, we reexamine the knowledge sharing based on knowledge convening and fermenting model. After comparing the process of knowledge movement with that of biotic fermenting, several important attributes that knowledge owns are discovered, they are existence of origination, inheritance and variation, the need of assembly for knowledge evolution and medium for knowledge assemblage. Furthermore, the authors put forward a new model--knowledge convening and fermenting model and in this way consider knowledge sharing as a process of knowledge fermenting. The authors thoroughly analyze the biotic attributes of knowledge, the elements of knowledge share fermenting model, and typical knowledge share fermenting.