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Family owned enterprises effects on knowledge sharing in southern China’s electronics industry
This is a research paper that looked at the effect of family owned enterprises on knowledge sharing whereby it has taken southern China’s electronics industry as the case study
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| language |  | english |
| wordcount |  | 7352 (cca 21 pages) |
| contextual quality |  | N/A |
| language level |  | N/A |
| price |  | free |
| sources |  | 27 |
Table of contents
1. Background and Aim of the Research 1
2. Need and Value of the Research 3
3. Review of Relevant Research Theory 4
3.0 Key References 4
3.1 Knowledge Sharing 5
3.2 Leadership and Knowledge Sharing 7
3.3 Organizational Culture and Knowledge Sharing 7
3.4 Incentives and Knowledge Sharing 8
3.5 Information Technology and Knowledge Sharing 8
3.6 Family enterprises and leadership 9
3.7 Family enterprises and organizational culture 9
3.8 Family enterprises and information technology 10
3.9 Family enterprise and incentive system 10
3.10 Enterprises Ownership and Knowledge Sharing 10
3.11 Research Questions 11
4. Conceptual Framework of the Research 12
4.1 Variables 13
5. Research Hypotheses 14
6. Justification for Research Topic 14
7. Research Methodology 15
7.1 Measurement Scales 16
7.2 Questionnaire Design 17
7.3 Reliability and Validity 19
7.4 Data Analysis 19
7.4.1 Statistical Tests of Models That Include Intervening Variables 20
7.5 Data Collection and Storage 21
7.6 Research Participants 22
7.7 Sample Size 22
8. Research Limitations 23
9. Ethical Considerations 23
Reference 23
Preview of the essay: Family owned enterprises effects on knowledge sharing in southern China’s electronics industry
Knowledge is recognized as crucial to the success of any enterprise (Drucker, 1993; Nonaka, 1994; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; Davenport and Prusak, 1998a). In order to gain competitive advantage enterprises are looking for ways of capturing, sharing and managing relevant tacit knowledge both internally and externally. During the last decade, knowledge management including intellectual property issues, information technology, and human resource management, has received a lot of attention from academics and practitioners alike. Knowledge sharing is a critical category of knowledge management, which is considered to be a complicated process (Cabrera and Cabrera, 2002). Grant (1996) argued that knowledge is generated by individuals and developed locally inside the organization. Cabrera and Cabrera (2002) also proposed that knowledge sharing is a collective process to gather the knowledge created by individuals within an organization. Hansen (2002) suggested that knowledge sharing is a crucial part of introducing best practice and reducing redundancy ...
... organization structure, training and reward, communication, and knowledge management strategy will not be evaluated. Also, the study is restricted to the electronics products industry with a company size of more than 200 employees and therefore the findings may not apply to other industries or enterprises of different size.
9. Ethical Considerations
Several measures will be taken to ensure that ethical issues will be managed in a professional and proper manner. Every respondent will be expected to read the Survey Information Sheet which explains the purpose of the study and the participants’ rights. Each participant will be required to click ‘agree’ to continue with the survey after reading the consent form on the website. The researcher will have no contact with potential participants before the survey and the Ethics Guidelines as specified by the University of South Australia (UniSA) will be strictly followed.
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Economics
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Humanistic Studies
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Benjamin I.This is a good reading diet for sociology students. It also provides good insight for further sociological researches along the area, albeit in a different cultural setting.