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Knowledge Sharing in International Innovation Course

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The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations

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Collaboration is a key driver of successful innovation. Knowledge sharing is not only vital for firms, but important for students in their learning too. For students to learn effectively, they must construct knowledge and collaborate with their peers. Knowledge sharing is essential to learning especially when it comes to the learning of innovation among students. However, this is not a trivial task. Business management students are reluctant to share knowledge among their peers. This paper describes the experience of a Finnish-Vietnamese international innovation course for business managers. The authors found that there are barriers to knowledge sharing among the students. This paper attempts to give theoretical underpinnings to the barriers and propose guidelines to help overcome the barriers.

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  1. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland

    Anne-Maria Aho

  2. Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

    Lorna Uden

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  1. School of Computing, Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom

    Lorna Uden

  2. College of Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

    Leon S.L. Wang

  3. and Control Faculty of Science, Universidad Salamanca Department of Computing Science, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez

  4. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Chang Yang

  5. Department of Information Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

    I-Hsien Ting

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Aho, AM., Uden, L. (2014). Knowledge Sharing in International Innovation Course. In: Uden, L., Wang, L., Corchado Rodríguez, J., Yang, HC., Ting, IH. (eds) The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7287-8_44

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