Knowledge sharing in hospitality organizations: A meta-analysis

Knowledge sharing plays a crucial role in how hospitality organizations gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Using meta-analytic examinations based on 275 relationships from 54 primary studies, the current study proposes an integrative framework at both an employee and organizational level. Accordingly, this study comprehensively investigates the relations of knowledge sharing with its antecedents and consequences at both levels by synthesizing effect size estimates. Also, this study supplementarily conducts full-information metaanalytic structural equation modeling to examine the causality of proposed relationships. This study further examines the moderating roles of certain sub-dimensions of knowledge sharing and regions in each relationship of knowledge sharing with its predictors and outcomes. Based on findings derived from robust meta-analytic procedures, the authors identify several important patterns of findings. This study provides an advanced understanding of the nomological network of knowledge sharing in the hospitality organizational context.

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This study examines the importance of knowledge sharing in gaining competitive advantage within hospitality organizations, proposing an integrative framework based on meta-analytic examinations. The research comprehensively investigates the relationships of knowledge sharing with its antecedents and consequences, conducting full-information meta-analytic structural equation modeling to examine causality and moderating roles. Findings from robust meta-analytic procedures provide advanced understanding of the nomological network of knowledge sharing in the hospitality organizational context.