| Knowledge management (KM) is very important in the business world of today. The Taiwanese government has recognized the importance of KM in helping Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to innovate through both their internal core competencies and external resources. They have the KM promotion project to combine resources from the information service industry and the academic sector in order to assist SMEs, and have been attempting to introduce the process of KM since 1993. However, only 0.1% of SMEs had been guided by the Small and Medium Enterprise Administration (SMEA) to introduce knowledge management from 1993 to 2008. The population of KM implementing SMEs is very low. The climate of knowledge sharing has been recognized as the critical factor to success KM. The Motivation, Opportunity, and Ability (MOA) framework has been applied to study how those MOA availability drive knowledge sharing in large enterprises. This study will investigate the factors or barriers the influence the intention of knowledge sharing in Taiwanese SMEs through MOA framework. It should help business managers to identify the motivational elements that can encourage investment in it, and then propose pragmatic suggestions for introducing KM initiatives in order to reinvigorate the numbers of KM implementing SMEs in Taiwan. |
