Team cohesiveness and leadership in the development of a knowledge sharing atmosphere

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In the last decade, trust (Wang et al., 2006; Koskinen et al., 2003., Politis, 2003), social networks (Borgatti and Cross, 2003; Cross et al., 2001; Hansen, 1999; Inkpen and Tsang, 2005;), social context (Fernie et al., 2003) and team climate (Z’arraga and Bonache, 2003; Wu et al., 2007; Muthusamy et al., 2005 ) have been intensively discussed within knowledge sharing studies. However, there are some fundamental issues being neglect in relation to how knowledge sharing becomes a routine activity. Research presented in this paper discovered that team atmosphere is an important element to sustain continuous knowledge sharing within a team. Two significant elements emerged as drivers - team cohesiveness and leadership. Whilst these two seem to be interdependent, this paper will focus primarily on team cohesiveness.<br/>The research was conducted in four R&D teams in Taiwan. Semi-structured interviews and team observation were adopted to collect qualitative data. Subsequently

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