Knowledge sharing and innovation: Systematic review

Innovation is an organizational capacity to obtain competitive advantage. Knowledge sharing is the exchange of experience, skills, tacit and explicit knowledge between employees. A successful factor that leads to innovation is knowledge sharing. In the innovation context, knowledge sharing is the exchange of expertise oriented to create or improve products and services of value. The method employed in this study was a systematic review, covering knowledge sharing and innovation publications from 1973, when the first paper relating both topics was found, up to 2017. Two types of reports are presented. The first one is about the historical production of articles of knowledge sharing and innovation between the studied period and the second one is about the seminal articles in the relationship between these two topics. It is also presented the most representative papers identified by citation network and social network analysis. There were found four periods of the relationship innovation and knowledge sharing: embryonic, emergent, growth young and growth highest. The relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation is still growing taking as indicator the number of published papers by year.