How motivation, opportunity, and ability drive knowledge sharing: The constraining-factor model

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 426-445

  Siemsen, Enno ^a   Roth, Aleda V ^b   Balasubramanian, Sridhar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Bowling Green State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral operations; Bottleneck; Constraining factor model; Knowledge sharing; MOA framework

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BEHAVIORAL OPERATIONS; CONSTRAINING-FACTOR MODELS; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; MOTIVATION-OPPORTUNITY-ABILITY (MOA) FRAMEWORK;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 42049110298     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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