Influence Factors of Electronic Information Sharing in Higher Education Sector

Information sharing is one of the important aspects that improve the quality of businesses. Furthermore with the advance of information and communication technology (ICT), electronic information sharing is increasingly needed to support decision making. Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR) in Iraq has decided to give the ability of making decisions to its universities to let them make their decisions by themselves. Unfortunately not all the Iraqi public universities are able to make their decision because limitation of experience and resources, such as information. The limitation of electronic information sharing between universities and MOHESR is considered as a huge gap in order to increase the universities' information. Thus, this study found out the theoretical framework with the influence factors of electronic information sharing between them. Finally, this framework can increase the participation of electronic information sharing between Iraqi public universities and MOHESR.