Research framework of knowledge sharing in collaborative e-commerce

The Internet has been a massive contribution to the growing number of collaborative e-commerce. The collaboration and interaction between businesses have resulted in intensive information sharing. However, collaborative e-commerce causes other issues such as trust, partnership, intellectual property protection, and more. Thus, these issues require significant measures to minimize the impact on businesses, customers, and society. This paper reviews the elements related to knowledge sharing in collaborative e-commerce in order to identify the relationship between trade secret partnerships and organizational trust in collaborative e-commerce. The research has conducted an exhaustive review and analysis of the literature to identify the issues and challenges faced by e-commerce collaborators in sharing knowledge. From the literature gathered, a proposed model of research framework consisting of interrelated constructs is illustrated that can be used for details studies on Knowledge Sharing in collaborative E-commerce. Future work is to adopt block chain technology in securing digital assets exchange among the collaborators of e-commerce.