The objective of this paper is to explore
the impact organizational culture on knowledge
sharing behaviors at workplace. In specific, we are
interested to investigate two types of employee
knowledge sharing behaviors which are known as
collaborative and competitive behaviors. We will
apply Hofstede’s (1984) theoretical lens based on four
different organizational cultural dimensions to
understand the ways those dimensions impact the two
varied knowledge sharing behaviors. For example, we
aim at exploring the assumption that knowledge
sharing works best in a collective context, or where
there is a collaborative culture within organizations.
In contrast, elements of individualism and uneven
power structures within the organization can hinder
knowledge sharing behavior. As a concluding remark,
we propose a framework of culturally-oriented
knowledge sharing behaviors with numerous
propositions to be tested in the future study