International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness

The knowledge-based view of organizational behavior emphasizes the importance of knowledge for organizations to retain their competitive advantage. Thus, the success of knowledge sharing is important because, if successful, it results in shared intellectual capital. Knowledge is one of the most important assets of a business which influence competitiveness, thus we need to understand the relationship between knowledge sharing and competitiveness. This study investigates possible factors of resistance or support by knowledge workers to the sharing of knowledge within an organization. Further the relationship among knowledge sharing factors with competitiveness has been explored from the available research. Based on the study of various organizations it is found that the existing knowledge is not being effectively disseminated throughout the organization, resulting in lost productivity and opportunity as a result of failure to exploit available knowledge. Major factors of Knowledge-Sharing (KS), which are important to improve the competitiveness of organizations in international business, were identified, and an integrated model of these factors has been developed using interpretive structural modeling (ISM). The developed model has been further improved with the application of fuzzy MICMAC. The generated model may help in better sharing of knowledge in organizations and will help in correlating with competitiveness.