Making it happen: The pivotal role of knowledge sharing for information technology deployment success during joint venture change

Eaves, Sally; Kumar, Vikas; White, Gareth RT; Loonam, John

Abstract

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Tacit and explicit knowledge sharing must be continually cultivated to enable information technology implementation success. Effective information technology deployment necessitates a holistic focus beyond technical and legacy factors to include social, organizational, political, and interpersonal dimensions. Attention to cultural integration is a critical component of managing joint venture change and building employee engagement, perception of legitimacy and knowledge sharing norms. Individual employees occupy a key role in determining intended strategic impacts by committing to and enacting change efforts, particularly though making discretionary decisions to share their knowledge or alternatively to hoard, hide or disengage from sharing; an outcome which may be influenced by perceptions on knowledge ownership and value.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 26, 2018
• Publication Date: May 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jun 18, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: May 2, 2020
• Journal: Strategic Change
• Print ISSN: 1099-1697
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 245-255
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2198
• Keywords: knowledge sharing, information technology, joint venture change
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/867698
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2198
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Eaves, S., Kumar, V., White, G. R. and Loonam, J. (2018) Making IT happen: The pivotal role of knowledge sharing for information technology deployment success during joint venture change. Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance, 27 (3). pp. 245-255. ISSN 1099-1697], which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2198. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
• Contract Date: Jun 18, 2018