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A Gender and Leadership Perspective on Knowledge-Sharing

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This chapter reviews the extent to which female leaders are considered in theorising and practices of knowledge management in organisations. It highlights how women have a positive impact when it comes to knowledge-sharing in teams. The review also highlights how existing organisational structure and culture could be improved to empower female knowledge leaders.

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  1. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK

    Memoona Tariq

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  1. Suleman Dawood School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

    Jawad Syed

  2. School of Management and Enterprise, Faculty of Business, Education, Law and the Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

    Peter A. Murray

  3. School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Donald Hislop

  4. Muscat University, St Helens, Merseyside, United Kingdom

    Yusra Mouzughi

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Tariq, M. (2018). A Gender and Leadership Perspective on Knowledge-Sharing. In: Syed, J., Murray, P., Hislop, D., Mouzughi, Y. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Knowledge Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71434-9_13

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