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318 gap statements mined from Knowledge Management and Sharing papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 3,475 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • SMEs cannot yet achieve innovation due to several limitations, such as labor, finance, and small market scope. There is a need to find ways to strengthen their competitive position and productivity.

    Improving Innovative Work Behavior in Small and Medium Enterprises: Integrating Transformational Leadership, Knowledge Sharing, and Psychological Empowerment · 2024 · DOI

  • This highlights a potential area for further investigation into how these practices are implemented and whether their effectiveness might be influenced by other factors such as the culture of the organisation or the nature of the work.

    Analysing the Role of Knowledge Management Practices on Worker Performance - The Mediating Role of Organisational Commitment · 2026 · DOI

  • Third, the potential leadership role of students with leadership experience in digital collaborative learning should be explored while interpreting the statistical results cautiously.

    The relationship between digital literacy and academic innovative behavior among STEM students: the mediating roles of knowledge-sharing intention and creative self-efficacy · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should investigate organizational platforms and explore potential interactions between online participation and organizational factors in driving physicians’ proactive efforts.

    Impact of Reverse Empowerment and Proactive Motivations on Physicians’ Online Knowledge Sharing in Digital Platforms: Survey Study · 2024 · DOI

  • Finally, this study provides empirical evidence from the underexplored Pakistani IT industry, strengthening the understanding of boundary-conditioned interactions among trust, ICT, and knowledge-sharing in an emerging economy context. Secondly, the study advances trust research in distributed agile teams, where interpersonal communication is scarce due to distance and reliance on digital tools.

    Trust, Knowledge Sharing, and ICT Effects on Distributed Agile Performance in Pakistan · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need to investigate how knowledge sharing affects learning processes by enabling the flow of knowledge within the organization.

    The Mediating Role of Transformative Leadership in Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Learning within Public Institutions · 2026 · DOI

  • Organizational failure is sometimes repeated due to lack of awareness or forgetting of measures to prevent it. The measures devised to prevent the failure might not be circulated within the organization. The act of recording and human memory may not be promoted in organizational learning from failure.

    How Computer-Based Knowledge Repositories Enhance Organizational Memory: An Attempt to Generalize a Failure Organizational Learning Model Based on Two Anonymous Surveys · 2026 · DOI

  • Knowledge hiding is a prevalent behavior in organizations. Knowledge hiding can have negative consequences for organizations and employees. There is a need to understand the underlying mechanisms of knowledge hiding and its impact on employee behavior.

    How Knowledge Hiding Increases Public Sector Employees’ Engagement in Political Acts: A Study from the Perspective of Target · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should examine the long-term effects of knowledge hiding on employee behavior. Future research should investigate the impact of knowledge hiding on other organizational outcomes, such as job satisfaction and performance.

    How Knowledge Hiding Increases Public Sector Employees’ Engagement in Political Acts: A Study from the Perspective of Target · 2026 · DOI

  • Financial constraints limit the capacity of SMEs to invest in modern technologies. The implementation of knowledge management processes is underdeveloped in SMEs. Leadership support is crucial for KM implementation but may be lacking in some SMEs.

    Knowledge management implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises in Serbia: Current state, challenges, and success factors · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should focus on developing and implementing effective knowledge management processes in SMEs. Studies should investigate the impact of knowledge management on innovation performance and overall efficiency in SMEs.

    Knowledge management implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises in Serbia: Current state, challenges, and success factors · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a paucity of empirical studies on the relationship between intergenerational knowledge transfer and sustainability objectives in SMEs. Previous research has mostly studied sustainability efforts or intergenerational knowledge transfer separately.

    Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer as a Driver for SMEs Sustainability: A Multigenerational Workforce Perspective · 2026 · DOI

  • The literature has focused on material rewards, but intangible rewards like praise and verbal recognition are under-researched. The question of differences between material and immaterial rewards for work motivation is important, especially for knowledge workers.

    Well done vs. well paid: The influence of verbal and financial rewards on prosocial motivation in knowledge sharing dilemmas · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should aim to replicate the findings in more recent contexts to assess potential changes in global partnership practices. Future research should consider investigating mediating mechanisms or conducting multi-group analyses across industry sectors.

    Unlocking knowledge transfer success in international projects: Exploring the role of cognitive capital · 2026 · DOI

  • The study aims to address this gap by examining the mediating roles of project management processes and international partnership management.

    Unlocking knowledge transfer success in international projects: Exploring the role of cognitive capital · 2026 · DOI

  • In the medium term, the measurement structure should be validated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) or structural equation modelling (SEM) on a new sample, while exploring the feasibility of a two-tier model: a more condensed cognitive tier and a more detailed operational index tier.

    Qa-Kpi System: An Instrument for Measuring the Impact and Dissemination of Knowledge in Culture and Arts Training · 2026 · DOI

  • The research aims to address this gap by evaluating the impact of these factors on technology-based companies.

    Modelo de competitividad para empresas tecnológicas: Innovación abierta, gestión del conocimiento y liderazgo transformacional en México · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of frameworks for knowledge retention in public enterprises, specifically in business analytics. The scarcity of data analytics skills, inadequate skills acquisition and retention capabilities, and limited knowledge sharing among professionals in the business analytics domain.

    Information systems capabilities and knowledge sharing for improved business analytics: A systematic literature review · 2026 · DOI

  • The need to develop effective leadership strategies to promote innovative work behavior. The importance of creating a supportive work environment to foster knowledge sharing.

    Investigating transformational leadership’s contribution to innovative work behavior through organizational culture and knowledge sharing · 2026 · DOI

  • Although relationships among relational networks, knowledge activities, and team innovation have been widely examined in prior research, the mechanisms through which differentiated knowledge paths influence innovation have not been directly compared within a single model.

    How relational networks influence team innovation: dual pathways and synergistic mechanism in knowledge activities · 2026 · DOI

  • Previous studies have primarily focused on assessing organisational culture or examining the effects of culture types on organisational performance. There is a need to discover how dimensions of a strong organisational culture improve healthcare workforce performance.

    Organisational Culture and Healthcare Workforce Performance in Vietnam: The Mediating Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Digital Transformation · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need for hospital administrators to acknowledge and champion the intrinsic value of nurses' professional competence in health education. The research also notes the challenge of maintaining data confidentiality and privacy.

    Correlates of nurse-reported health education competence through knowledge sharing in chinese hospitals · 2026 · DOI

  • Limited resources in SMEs. Age-related stereotypes, communication barriers, and job security inhibit effective knowledge transfer. Differences in perceptions of knowledge sharing importance between age groups.

    Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer as a Driver for SMEs Sustainability: A Multigenerational Workforce Perspective · 2026 · DOI

  • Limited empirical research investigates how specific KMS dimensions influence students’ academic decision-making quality.

    Using Knowledge Management Systems to Improve Decision-Making Quality: Evidence from Business Students in Higher Education · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a research gap in understanding the relationship between leadership and creativity. The research aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how destructive leadership behaviors hinder innovation in organizations.

    PUNITIVE SUPERVISION, KNOWLEDGE SABOTAGE & EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) The study advances trust research in distributed agile teams, where interpersonal communication is scarce due to distance and reliance on digital tools (“Trust, Knowledge Sharing, and ICT Effects on Distributed Agile Performance in…”, 2026); (2) There is a need to investigate how knowledge sharing affects learning processes by enabling the flow of knowledge within the organization (“The Mediating Role of Transformative Leadership in Knowledge Sharing and…”, 2026); (3) Organizational failure is sometimes repeated due to lack of awareness or forgetting of measures to prevent it (“How Computer-Based Knowledge Repositories Enhance Organizational Memory: An…”, 2026); (4) There is a need to understand the underlying mechanisms of knowledge hiding and its impact on employee behavior (“How Knowledge Hiding Increases Public Sector Employees’ Engagement in Political…”, 2026); (5) Future research should focus on developing and implementing effective knowledge management processes in SMEs (“Knowledge management implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises in…”, 2026). 318 gap statements have been mined from Knowledge Management and Sharing papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 3,475 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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