Barriers to Knowledge Sharing among Students at Libyan Universities

This study aimed to investigate the knowledge-sharing barriers among Libyan university students. The study explores the individual, organizational, and technological barriers to knowledge sharing among university students in Libya, and whether any significant differences could be attributed to the influences of demographic factors. A questionnaire was developed, validated and used to collect the required data. The sample size was 384 as recommended by Krejcie & Morgan (1970), and a higher sample of 409 responses were with 399 deemed valid for the analysis phase. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze the data. Reliability tests, normality tests, means, frequencies and hypotheses tests were all used at this stage. The key results of the study are that knowledge-sharing barriers negatively affect knowledge-sharing. The study has its limitations, especially the limited number of published studies on the topic in Libya. The recommendation and implications of the study are that decision-makers and the Libyan Ministry of Education and universities should be more aware of such a problem to take all necessary measures in this respect.