Abstract:

For a company, recessive knowledge is much more valuable than visible knowledge, whereas it is difficult to make recessive knowledge shared in knowledge management. Based on the evolutionary games theory, the changes of the participators’ attitude and their benefits are researched in knowledge sharing processes, and then an evolutionary games model is proposed. With this model, the reason why recessive knowledge is hard to be shared and the path of knowledge sharing is found. If taking advantage of recessive knowledge, companies would improve their efficiency, innovation, and competition ability. As a result, a good “sharing culture” will emerge.

Key words: recessiveknowledge, knowledgesharing, evolutionarygamestheory, knowledgemanagement