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.
