Knowledge sharing and business process: The mediating role of organizational factors

Knowledge is considered as a vital asset, an important fundamental driver and significant resource in banking industry. In current era, banks face positive consequences of sharing knowledge in workplace. Knowledge management is significant and reliable source for achieving excellence in organization...

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Published in:Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences 2019, Vol.13 (2), p.436-454
Main Authors: Shami, Ghulam Mustafa, Rehman, Chaudhry Abdul, Bin Dost, Muhammad Khyzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Associations
Banking industry
banking sector
Banks
Business forms
Business information
business process
Corporate culture
Criminal investigations
Decision making
Employees
Empowerment
Explicit knowledge
Information systems
Knowledge management
Knowledge sharing
Market entry
organizational culture factors and trust factors
Researchers
Studies
Tacit knowledge
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Summary:Knowledge is considered as a vital asset, an important fundamental driver and significant resource in banking industry. In current era, banks face positive consequences of sharing knowledge in workplace. Knowledge management is significant and reliable source for achieving excellence in organizational performance. But there is thirst in literature to have research on knowledge sharing and its significance in improving the business process of banking sector. This research has been designed to empirically investigate the significance of knowledge sharing on a business process with the mediating role of organizational factors. The researchers collect data through a self-administrative questionnaire. Drawing on insights from 200 valid respondents from various banks of Pakistan, SEM and Path modeling approach is used to examine the relationships between knowledge sharing and business process, using AMOS software. The finding of the study demonstrates that the organizational culture factors and knowledge sharing practices directly improve the banking performance and process in Pakistan. The statistical test accepted the hypothesis that intrinsic organizational factors mediated the business process through knowledge sharing at a 1% level of significance. The research is valuable as it provides useful information related to bank employees to engage in knowledge sharing practices
ISSN:2309-8619
1997-8553
2309-8619