A Study on Knowledge Hiding: Visualized Quantitative Analysis Based on Note Express

Abstract

Knowledge hiding refers to the deliberate hiding of individuals in an organization in the face of their colleagues' knowledge requests. At present, the research review in this field is mainly based on the qualitative research method, relying on the author's subjective intention to build the theoretical framework, lack of quantitative objective analysis. Taking the literatures on knowledge hiding research in Web of Science database and CNKI database as the research object, this paper used the visualization software Note Express to sort out the dimensions of the research on knowledge hiding, such as the annual distribution, literature type and source distribution, author quantitative analysis, title (participle) quantitative analysis and keyword quantitative analysis. The basic status of knowledge hiding research is summarized. By analyzing the research contents of knowledge hiding, we extracted four themes, the concept and classification of knowledge hiding, theoretical support, research methods and research perspectives, and clarified the evolutionary context of knowledge hiding research. The future research direction is put forward.