期刊
JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
卷 20, 期 5, 页码 880-897出版社
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/JKM-11-2015-0451
关键词
China; Territoriality; Intervention mechanism; Knowledge hiding; Multilevel study
资金
- Ministry of education of Humanities and Social Science [13YJC630057]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71302048, 71472137]
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine why employees hide knowledge and how organizations intervene and influence the negative effects of knowledge hiding. This study builds and tests a theoretical model at both individual and team level. Design/methodology/approach - Data were collected from universities, research institutes and enterprises' research and development (R&D) teams in China via a two-wave survey. The final sample contained 417 cases. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to test hypotheses. Findings - The results show that territoriality plays a mediating role between psychological ownership and knowledge hiding, and that organizational result justice negatively moderated the relationship between territoriality and knowledge hiding. Procedure justice negatively moderated the relationship between territoriality and rationalized hiding, and that between territoriality and evasive hiding. Interactive justice negatively moderated the relationship between territoriality and rationalized hiding, and that between territoriality and evasive hiding. There were thus interactive effects among territoriality, perceived knowledge value and psychological ownership; the relationship between individual psychological ownership and territoriality was weaker when perceived knowledge value was lower and task interdependence was higher, and stronger with higher perceived knowledge value and lower task interdependence. Research limitations/implications - Territorial behaviors, such as knowledge hoarding and misleading within R&D teams, are the primary challenges for organizations' positive activities, including internal sharing, teamwork and organizational goal accomplishment. Researching knowledge territoriality in the Chinese cultural context will help to distinguish territorial behaviors and to take preventive measures. In addition, this study not only enables managers to understand clearly the precipitating factors of knowledge territoriality and the relationships among them but also provides constructive strategies for reducing the negative effect of organizational intervention in knowledge territoriality. Originality/value - This study adopts a multilevel modeling method and not only reveals the black box of interaction among psychological ownership, territoriality and knowledge hiding at the individual level but also probes the three-way interaction of perceived knowledge value, team task dependency and psychological ownership with territoriality at both individual and team levels, and then discusses the mediation effect of organizational justice on the relationship between territoriality and knowledge hiding. The conclusion of this study not only enriches the literature on knowledge hiding in the field of knowledge management knowledge hiding.
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