Motivation and barriers to participation in virtual knowledge-sharing communities of practice

Abstract

The present study has been conducted in order to investigate the documentation of the organizational knowledge condition from the managers’ perspective of libraries, museums, and Documents Center of Astan Quds Razavi based on Dalkir model [Dalkir, K. (2005). Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice. Elsevier. Butterworth-Heinemann.]. The survey population consisted of all managers of Astan Quds libraries. The relevant information was gathered using a researcher-created the questionnaire based on Dalkir model of knowledge management cycle. Findings revealed that in all six dimensions of knowledge documentation, obtained means were less than intermediate level (3) and documentation status in all studied dimensions of Dalkir’s model was not suitable.