Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 27 Issue 5

The joint effects of supervisor knowledge hiding, abusive supervision, and employee political skill on employee knowledge hiding behaviors

Florian Offergelt, Laura Venz

Knowledge hiding, intentionally withholding work-relevant information, is detrimental to organizations, yet practiced by supervisors and employees. Based on social learning and…

Rewards and knowledge sharing in the CoPS development context: the moderating role of transformational leadership

Ruxiang Zhao, Nanping Feng, Fenfen Wei, Youying Wang

Knowledge sharing (KS) among employees is critical to successfully developing complex products and systems (CoPS) but is often hampered by employees’ low motivations. The purpose…

The effect of knowledge sharing and systems thinking on organizational sustainability: the mediating role of creativity

Fatima Batool, Jihad Mohammad, Siti Rahmah Awang, Tahir Ahmad

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effects of knowledge sharing and systems thinking on creativity and organizational sustainability in the hotel industry in…

Knowledge complexity and team information processing: the mediating role of team learning goal orientation

Chenggang Duan, Xinmei Liu, Xiaomei Yang, Cheng Deng

Drawing on job demands and resources theory and the challenge-hindrance stressor framework, this study aims to investigate the effect of team knowledge complexity on team…

Person related workplace bullying and knowledge hiding behaviors: relational psychological contract breach as an underlying mechanism

Muhammad Waseem Bari, Qurrahtulain Khan, Asad Waqas

This paper aims to investigate the direct relationship between person-related workplace bullying and dimensions of knowledge hiding. In addition, this study also intends to…

The role of knowledge management in the tourism sector: a synthesis and way forward

Amitabh Anand, Varsha Pratibha Shantakumar, Birgit Muskat, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Jean-Pierre Dumazert, Youssra Riahi

This study aims to explore and synthesize the role of knowledge management (KM) in tourism organizations (including micro, small, medium and large enterprises and destination…

Knowledge sharing processes and the role of attachment patterns

Matthew J.W. McLarnon, Ian R. Gellatly, David A. Richards, Ofer Arazy

Past research on the motivational processes underpinning knowledge sharing has assumed that the sharing processes are similar for all individuals. Yet, sharing is a fundamental…

Capitalizing online knowledge networks: from individual knowledge acquisition towards organizational achievements

Elena-Mădălina Vătămănescu, Constantin Bratianu, Dan-Cristian Dabija, Simona Popa

This paper aims to explore the relationships among several key constructs which link the individual’s motivation for knowledge acquisition to his affiliation with online knowledge…

Grassroot processes of knowledge sharing to build social innovation capabilities

Monica Fait, Domitilla Magni, Mirko Perano, Massimiliano Farina Briamonte, Pasquale Sasso

This study aims to offer an empirical analysis to identify the relation between the adoption of knowledge management practices and the improvement of social innovation…

Antecedents and consequences of knowledge sabotage in the Turkish telecommunication and retail sectors

Alexander Serenko, A. Mohammed Abubakar

This study aims to propose and test a model explicating the antecedents and consequences of knowledge sabotage.

The contingent roles of market turbulence and organizational innovativeness on the relationships among interfirm trust, formal contracts, interfirm knowledge sharing and firm performance

Jing Sun, Amanuel Tekleab, Millissa Cheung, Wei-Ping Wu

Prior research on interfirm collaborations has demonstrated that trust and contract are two central governance mechanisms that influence a firm’s knowledge sharing decision and…

Why and how targets’ negative workplace gossip exhort knowledge hiding? Shedding light on organizational justice

Abdul Gaffar Khan, Yan Li, Zubair Akram, Umair Akram

Extant scholars identified negative workplace gossip as a social stressor that negatively influences employees’ behavior and attitude. Despite the burgeoning interest in workplace…

Reciprocal knowledge sharing: exploring professional–cultural knowledge sharing between expatriates and local nurses

Noof Aldaheri, Gustavo Guzman, Heather Stewart

This study aims to explore how professional–cultural knowledge is reciprocally shared between experienced expatriates and novice local nurses. To address this, the situated…