It is generally agreed upon that knowledge sharing is a crucial process within
organizational settings, whether these are project teams, formal work groups or
communities of practice. Organizational settings usually exist to achieve a collective
outcome, for example delivering physical or intellectual products and/or services. They are
created or emerge as none of the actors involved can produce the collective outcome
individually. Due to the division of labor and accompanying fragmentation, specialization,
and distribution of knowledge, it becomes a requisite to integrate a diversity of
complementary knowledge in order to achieve the collective outcomes (Grant, 1996).
Knowledge sharing becomes a necessary means for achieving the collective outcome as a
part of the work requirements.