Simulation Analysis on Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Knowledge Sharing among Companies Based on Social Network

Abstract

Modern Information technology improves the efficiency of knowledge exchange across time and distance. However, the corporation still faces many difficulties to share knowledge because of many social factors such as corporate social responsibility. In this paper, a cause-effect model is established to analyze the relationship between corporation social responsibility and efficiency of knowledge sharing by middle variables (i.e. corporate leadership and reputation). And then, Based on social network, a threshold model is constructed to explore how the corporate social responsibility affects the efficiency of knowledge sharing. The simulation results confirm that the corporate social responsibility will indirectly affect the knowledge sharing efficiency through corporate leadership and reputation. There is a significant positive correlation between them. This provides a new perspective to study the non-technical factors which lead to dilemma of knowledge sharing. Surely, it will be helpful for us to deeply understand how the corporate social responsibility impacts the corporate performance.