Preconditions of Information Sharing Towards Value Creation: The Ugandan Government Perspective

Abstract

Information is power and one of the most valuable government resources. Information boosts various parts of the economy, making it possible for all stakeholders to be linked to markets. In the era of globalization, information sharing across cultural and national boundaries has been recognized as a key for handling most critical problems. With this information at hand, there is an opportunity for the people to meaningfully participate in governance through coming in public discussions and contributing to decision making. Numerous factors, including organizational, technology, and individual characteristics, have also been proved to have a significant impact on information sharing in organizations. In the present research, information sharing is considered as a mediating variable and value creation as the outcome variable. This research also incorporates inspirational leadership as a moderating factor between the independent variables and information sharing as well as value creation. In terms of data collection, the survey method employing a questionnaire was used. The survey involved the ministry of foreign affairs and its employees (N=202) were the unit of analysis. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 and AMOS software. The results of the analysis reveal many significant relationships among our research variables