Criteria

Relative weight

Existing corporate culture does not provide sufficient support for sharing practices

0.23

Insufficient capture, evaluation, feedback, communication, and tolerance

of past mistakes that would enhance individual and organizational learning effects

0.18

Lack of leadership and managerial direction in terms of clearly

communicating the benefits and values of knowledge sharing practices

0.16

Differences in education levels

0.08

External competitiveness within business units or functional areas and

between subsidiaries can be high (e.g. not invented here syndrome)

0.08

Not keeping skillful and experienced employee

0.07

Apprehension of fear that sharing may reduce or jeopardize people’s job

security

0.06

Not welcoming new ideas, shortage of formal and informal spaces to share, reflect and generate (new) knowledge

0.05

Lack of transparent rewards and recognition systems that would motivate people to share more of their knowledge

0.04

Gender differences

0.04