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Projects are considered to be temporary organisations (Lundin & Söderholm, 1995), so the non-permanent nature of the projects makes it even more important for the organisations to put a significant emphasis on knowledge sharing (KS). This paper aims to present an overview of the KS concept in project management (PM) by involving selected top journals of this research field. Furthermore, to create a KS theory map introducing subject areas related to KS concept with their relationships. Scopus database was used as a source and articles published in four journals (Q1 and Q2 ranked) were chosen: International Journal of Project Management, Project Management Journal, and International Journal of Managing Projects in Business; International Journal on Information Systems and Project Management. Our primary search resulted in 49 records over a 20-year time-period (2003-2022). 'Knowledge sharing' was applied as our primary search-word and the document type was limited only to 'articles', and regarding language, source type and article 'English' 'journal' 'articles' were applied as filters concerning the database. Systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted based on the steps of Okoli (2015) and was visualized by a PRISMA flow chart. The final sample included 36 articles based on a three-criteria selection process. Descriptive analysis was conducted on this sample, and it was also content analysed based on multiple aspects. The main subject areas related to KS concept resulted in a theory map, which visualizes influencing and influenced factors of KS based on the analysis of the past 20 years' articles from the selected top PM journals. The analysis revealed the overlaps and interrelationship amongst the influencing factors, which enables us to group them. These findings are useful for PM academics to place their current and future research in this KS theory map, or to identify possible gaps in the literature in this field. By being aware of the complex nature of KS, practitioners could make more focused decisions to foster the KS mechanisms in their projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
