FOSTERING KNOWLEDGE SHARING AMONG SOFTWARE ENGINEERS – CASE OF MALAYSIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

Software Engineering is a booming industry and has huge impact on world economy.
This profession is highly knowledge intensive for which knowledge sharing is critical.
Importance of knowledge sharing can be imagined from the findings that apart from
small, medium and large enterprises, only Fortune 500 companies lose US $31.5
billion annually because of failure to share knowledge. Due to the importance of
knowledge sharing for overall industries and especially for Software Engineering,
there is a need to look more rigorously into this aspect. Software Engineering itself is
not a mature field yet and most of the studies done so far in this field have focused on
the technical aspects.