Formal Versus Informal Training & Tacit Versus Explicit Knowledge Sharing: What Matters More for the Entrepreneurially Oriented Firms?

Authors

  • Faten Methammem Sousse Higher Institute of Management, University of Sousse, Sousse- 4000, Tunisia

Keywords:

Entrepreneurial orientation (E.O), employees’ training (ET), knowledge sharing (KS), textile and clothing industry, Tunisia

Abstract

The beneficial outcome of a firm’s entrepreneurial orientation (E.O) has been widely researched, but literature and empirical studies about factors that stimulate E.O remain scarce.  Previous research has showed that employee training is a crucial mechanism to foster E.O others has exhibited that a higher level of knowledge sharing is related to a stronger E.O. Although, previous researches do not distinguish neither between different type of training, with the most important distinction being between formal and informal nor between different form of knowledge sharing, with the very popular being between tacit and explicit. In view of the difference for each pair contrasts of one over the other, they are widely considered to have different impact on the E.O’s dimensions namely innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking in SMEs.  Our research model is tested with survey data collected from 186 Tunisian small and medium-sized textile & clothing firms. Findings reveal that the level of each dimension of E.O- Innovativeness, proactiveness and risk taking differs based on the form of knowledge sharing either tacit or explicit and the type of training either formal or informal.

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Methammem, F. (2020). Formal Versus Informal Training & Tacit Versus Explicit Knowledge Sharing: What Matters More for the Entrepreneurially Oriented Firms?. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 52(2), 104–135. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/11404

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