How Organizations Cope with Knowledge Economy? Formalising a ‘Learning By Sharing’ Process Inside the Organisations

This paper analyses what determinants are involved in knowledge sharing and organizational learning and which relationship exists between these two processes by designing a methodology in order to asses these process in an integrated one called learning by sharing. Based on a literature review of knowledge, the aim of this article is to build an integrative model of learning by sharing which takes into account four main differentiations of an organization: knowledge differentiations, competency differentiations, cooperation differentiations and competition differentiations. The reseàrch wàs cînducted durlng Àðrll – Mày 2013 ànd wàs bàsed în the ðîðulàtlîn màde îf îrgànlzàtlîns lîcàted ln Nîrtheàst reglîn îf Rîmànlà. The reseàrch methîd wàs à descrlðtlve exðlànàtlîn bàsed în self- àdmlnlstràted questlînnàlres dlstrlbuted by e-màlls. Results show that learning by sharing process is highly influenced by the four differentiations involved in the systemic learning by sharing diamond. This study provides empirical evidence for testing a new integrated model by taking into account four organizational differentiations. The vàlue îf the àrtiñle reside frîm à guidànñe fîr ðràñtiîners in îrder tî see the imðîrtànñe îf the leàrning by shàring ðrîñess in ñurrent eñînîmy, ànd às well fîr àñàdemiñs in îrder tî intrîduñe à new ðàràdigm in ñurrent eñînîmy theory.