Research On The Knowledge Sharing For Virtual Team From Social Network Perspective

Along with the knowledge economy time arrival, knowledge sharing plays an important role in enhancing core competition of virtual team, however it is not easy to share knowledge successfully in virtual team. The root cause of the problem is that it lacks relationship between members of virtual team.The process and essence of knowledge sharing show "network" and "social" characteristics. Based on the point, this paper introduces the social network and discusses the problem of knowledge sharing in the virtual team in a new respective in order to expand deeply its theoretical basis.This paper reviews the relevant theoretical basis, including the related concept and characteristics on virtual team, social network and knowledge sharing; secondly, the inner connection among them has been analysed and lay the foundation for the introduction of social network. The specific contents include construction of virtual team model based on social network,analysis of knowledge form the discussion onfactors of knowledge and systematically respectively from network node dimension,network structure dimension,network connection strength, network relation dimension.Finally, using the social network analysis software (Ucinet6) to one virtual team empirical analysis, further verification mentioned above the theory put forward by analyzing conclusion.