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Empowering Knowledge Sharing in Business

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In business, the activity of organizational learning, competitiveness and innovation is a platform to prepare and develop human capital. These platforms usually practice of knowledge sharing that believe will empower the business to high performance work practices (HPWPs). This study highlights a comprehensive literature review on how practices of the knowledge sharing embedded the activities. The discussion lead by understanding nature of knowledge sharing, process and continued with the practices of knowledge sharing. Finally, this study contributes to the strategy on how to improve the practices of knowledge sharing and perform well in business.

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    Norfadzilah Abdul Razak, Rozilah Abdul Aziz, Zulkefli Abdul Rahman & Sharifah Ali

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Razak, N.A., Aziz, R.A., Rahman, Z.A., Ali, S. (2018). Empowering Knowledge Sharing in Business. In: Noordin, F., Othman, A., Kassim, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6053-3_24

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