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Organizational Politics, Social Network, and Knowledge Management

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Cutting-Edge Research Topics on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009)

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This research identifies the social relationship and structure among members as well as organization’s political inclination, through which, it also identifies the current status of knowledge management. The result shows that the socio-technological factors (individual, knowledge and IT factors) affect knowledge transfer and the knowledge transfer influences performance and that the members’ relationship based on the political inclination of the organization has a major moderating effect on the above two relation.

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  1. Knowledge Innovation R&D Center, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyung-Dong, Sedeamun-Gu, Seoul, 120-750, Korea

    Hyun Jung Lee

  2. Department of Digital Business, Hoseo University, 268 Anseo-Dong, Cheonan, Choongchung- Nam-Do, 330-713, Korea

    Sora Kang & Jongwon Lee

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Lee, H.J., Kang, S., Lee, J. (2009). Organizational Politics, Social Network, and Knowledge Management. In: Shi, Y., Wang, S., Peng, Y., Li, J., Zeng, Y. (eds) Cutting-Edge Research Topics on Multiple Criteria Decision Making. MCDM 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02298-2_15

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