Knowledge Sharing Barriers in Vietnamese Higher Education Institutions (HEIS)

This article explores the barriers for sharing knowledge effectiveness in Vietnamese higher education institutions (HEIs). Data were analyzed and triangulated from interviews, and focus groups from different universities and from government and university websites. Three significant factors were ide...

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Published inInternational journal of knowledge management Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 51 - 70
Main Authors Van Ta, Canh, Zyngier, Suzanne
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey IGI Global 01.01.2018
Subjects
Absorptive capacity
Absorptivity
Analysis
Collaboration
Colleges & universities
Competitive advantage
Decision making
Developing countries
Economic value added
Education parks
Education, Higher
Explicit knowledge
Higher education
Higher education institutions
Industrialized nations
Innovations
Knowledge economy
Knowledge management
Knowledge sharing
LDCs
Management systems
Market economies
Publication output
Qualitative research
Research methodology
School facilities
Social networks
Success
Australia
United Kingdom
Vietnam
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Summary:This article explores the barriers for sharing knowledge effectiveness in Vietnamese higher education institutions (HEIs). Data were analyzed and triangulated from interviews, and focus groups from different universities and from government and university websites. Three significant factors were identified: bureaucratic management causing a lack of autonomy in decision-making, poor knowledge management systems, and weak individual absorptive capacity. The results demonstrate these three factors as a significant influence on academic staff to share absorb and create new knowledge measured by journal publication output, and graduate quality. The research findings provide insights on the Vietnamese higher education landscape in the transition from a centralized economy to a market economy.
ISSN:1548-0666
1548-0658
DOI:10.4018/IJKM.2018010104