TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring knowledge sharing and hiding on employees’ creative behaviors
T2 - A coopetition perspective
AU - Ge, Yao
AU - Zhao, Hong
AU - Hu, Yimei
AU - Zheng, Xuejiao
PY - 2023/10/1
Y1 - 2023/10/1
N2 - Employees are encouraged to share their knowledge to stimulate creativity and innovation. However, individuals may hide their knowledge to pursue personal interests. Drawing on the coopetition perspective, this study investigates how individual-level knowledge sharing and hiding behaviors jointly influence employees’ creative behaviors, as well as the knowledge sharing-hiding interaction mechanisms. We adopt a mixed-method design combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Two types of knowledge sharing are identified: Proactive and reactive, both of which promote employees’ creative behaviors. A follow-up empirical test shows that knowledge-hiding behaviors positively moderate the relationship between reactive knowledge sharing and employees’ creative behaviors. However, knowledge-hiding behaviors demonstrate an inverted U-shaped moderating effect on the relationship between proactive knowledge sharing and employees’ creative behaviors. This study makes a pioneering attempt to study the interplay between knowledge sharing and knowledge hiding and challenges the conventional notion regarding the role of knowledge hiding in employees’ creative behaviors.
AB - Employees are encouraged to share their knowledge to stimulate creativity and innovation. However, individuals may hide their knowledge to pursue personal interests. Drawing on the coopetition perspective, this study investigates how individual-level knowledge sharing and hiding behaviors jointly influence employees’ creative behaviors, as well as the knowledge sharing-hiding interaction mechanisms. We adopt a mixed-method design combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Two types of knowledge sharing are identified: Proactive and reactive, both of which promote employees’ creative behaviors. A follow-up empirical test shows that knowledge-hiding behaviors positively moderate the relationship between reactive knowledge sharing and employees’ creative behaviors. However, knowledge-hiding behaviors demonstrate an inverted U-shaped moderating effect on the relationship between proactive knowledge sharing and employees’ creative behaviors. This study makes a pioneering attempt to study the interplay between knowledge sharing and knowledge hiding and challenges the conventional notion regarding the role of knowledge hiding in employees’ creative behaviors.
KW - Coopetition
KW - Employees’ creative behaviors
KW - Knowledge hiding
KW - Knowledge sharing
KW - Service digitization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174941052&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jik.2023.100447
DO - 10.1016/j.jik.2023.100447
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2444-569X
VL - 8
JO - Journal of Innovation and Knowledge
JF - Journal of Innovation and Knowledge
IS - 4
M1 - 100447
ER -