Systemic collaboration model: boosting knowledge sharing in the organizational ecosystem

Introduction: the purpose of this short paper is to contribute io expanding the investigation of this research on the connections between Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing, based on the Knowledge Management (KM) of organizations. That means providing evidence that Collaboration, designed as a complex system, is built on different levels of agent interactions. In order to better understand this ecosystem, it is necessary to recognize the elements that inhabit this environment and then seeking to boost the impacts of Collaboration on organizations. Method: based on data collected at the systematic literature review that offers a point of view about collaboration from Information Systems (IS) perspective and implementing a combined analysis of the results, mapping concepts associated with knowledge sharing, in 270 articles reviewed. The goal of its first stage was to explore the connection's density between the Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing concepts. Results: as a consequence, the design of a conceptual collaboration model, based on the main findings of the previous analysis, represented here as a framework that is read as a social system, as a Collaboration Ecosystem, describing the "Systemic Collaboration". The results set this research in a contemporary context of complex systems overviews and connected it with IS and KM research. Conclusion: by offering an applied and strategic approach in reading the Collaboration as systemic, it both incentivizes the collaboration and lights its potential results for the ecosystem of the organization, building on sustainable relations between the agents.