Knowledge Sharing Barriers in Russian Universities’ Administrative Subdivisions

Abstract

Thе paper investigates the influence of a set of twelve various nature knowledge sharing barriers (shortly, KSBs) on the knowledge sharing speed and quality in the administrative subdivisions of six leading Russian universities. The respondents have been answering the questionnaire including questions regarding the KSBs’ perceived strength from the knowledge requester and knowledge holder positions, thus creating four models tested via the IBM SPSS Statistics 22 package as linear regression equations. The testing results are showing statistically significant influence of several KSBs on the knowledge sharing speed and quality. The methodology and results of the study have both practical applicability and theoretical value, as administrative subdivisions are considerably unpopular objects of knowledge sharing research in higher educational institutions, in contrast to the research and teaching subdivisions. Several further research development directions are suggested, considering both the sample extension and changes in the research methodology.

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“…The return on investment is the balance between expenses on capital expenses and operating expenses against the financial or non-financial return. Blagov et al (2017) define three types of barriers which are relevant to the program management administration which are technology, organization and organizational economics. In the field of teleworking, Persson (2020) identifies eight barriers related to the ability to express knowledge, time, uncertain of which knowledge to share, culture and leadership, less informal places to share knowledge, differences in terms of knowledge, experience and level of education and attitude.…”

“…KS poses job insecurity, as the shared knowledge may give advantages to others (Noll et al , 2010). Lack of commitment to KS such as not reading corporate emails and unable to conduct meeting (Blagov et al , 2017; Persson, 2020; Sołek-Borowska and Eisenbardt, 2019).…”