In recent years, Transmit and distribute organizational knowledge among employees which leads to functional synergistic in organizations, has found particular importance. Managers also have shown further interest in this subject, so more research has been leaning to the field. Reviewing literature showed that most research has been done on the subject of knowledge-sharing in organizations and there is no research has been done in Iran with the approach of knowledge hiding. Therefore the main issues of this study are factors causing the phenomenon of knowledge hidingin in organizations based on solutions. Software companies and professionals formed the research population. Grounded theory used based on 17 categories which formed a conceptual model which is presented in the paper.

Keywords: Knowledge Hiding, Knowledge, Knowledge Sharing, Software Company

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