This study examines the factors influencing knowledge sharing among faculty members at research institutes in iran.In order to achieve this goal, with 14 experts and faculty members of research institutes of Iran were interviewed.Analysis of the content of the interviews indicated that individual internal motivators, external motivators, willingness to share knowledge with fellow faculty members, personal interaction and a group faculty members, interpersonal context, inter organizational context, perspectives in knowledge production in research institutions, In the process of knowledge sharing among faculty members research institutes in Iran affected.

Also, the results revealed that faculty members in technical and engineering research institutes have higher personal and group interactions with their colleagues compared to humanities faculty members at research institutes. Finally, results showed that technical and engineering faculty members have greater tendency to collecting knowledge from their colleagues in comparison to humanities faculty groups.