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What is Knowledge-Sharing

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Handbook of Research on International Travel Agency and Tour Operation Management
Knowledge-sharing defined by the authors as a process where an exchange for tacit and explicit work-related knowledge takes place including two sides are collecting and donating knowledge based on mutual trust to learn and build new capabilities for improving the organization's performance.
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Organizational Barriers to Knowledge-Sharing: Evidence From Egyptian Tourism Companies
Mahmoud Ahmed Aboushouk (Pharos University in Alexandria, Egypt), Hala Hilaly (Alexandria University, Egypt), and Nashwa Fouad Attallah (Alexandria University, Egypt)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8434-6.ch012
Abstract
This chapter aimed at identifying and removing knowledge-sharing organizational barriers in the Egyptian tourism companies. The deductive approach and quantitative method were employed by this study. Moreover, a semi-structured questionnaire distributed to a sample of 278 tourism companies is used for data collection purposes. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is used for data analysis. Findings revealed significant effect of organizational barriers on knowledge-sharing behavior in tourism companies' context. A set of recommendations to overcome the perceived barriers of knowledge-sharing in tourism companies was introduced.
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