2019
DOI: 10.1002/asi.24192
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Knowledge withholding in online knowledge spaces: Social deviance behavior and secondary control perspective

Abstract: Knowledge withholding, which is defined as the likelihood that an individual devotes less than full effort to knowledge contribution, can be regarded as an emerging social deviance behavior for knowledge practice in online knowledge spaces. However, prior studies placed a great emphasis on proactive knowledge behaviors, such as knowledge sharing and contribution, but failed to consider the uniqueness of knowledge withholding. To capture the social‐deviant nature of knowledge withholding and to better understan… Show more

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“…Relatedly, Škerlavaj, Connelly, Cerne, and Dysvik, 2018 found that, in data collected from 342 students and insurance employees in Europe, time pressure increases knowledge hiding. Also, Shen, Li., Sun, Chen, and Wang, 2019 found in a Chinese study of 480 respondents that people may withhold knowledge while attributing their behavior to external factors. Similarly, characteristics of the knowledge itself and the potential recipient may relate to knowledge withholding.…”
Section: Empirical Review and Integrative Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Relatedly, Škerlavaj, Connelly, Cerne, and Dysvik, 2018 found that, in data collected from 342 students and insurance employees in Europe, time pressure increases knowledge hiding. Also, Shen, Li., Sun, Chen, and Wang, 2019 found in a Chinese study of 480 respondents that people may withhold knowledge while attributing their behavior to external factors. Similarly, characteristics of the knowledge itself and the potential recipient may relate to knowledge withholding.…”
Section: Empirical Review and Integrative Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, in Michailova and Husted (2003) study, a respondent explained that they do not want to be perceived in public as more knowledgeable than their superiors as doing so may hamper their promotion. Moreover, Shen et al (2019) found in a Chinese study of 480 respondents that people withhold knowledge when they predict a negative outcome of knowledge sharing. In a similar vein, Demirkasimoglu (2016) examined 386 academics in Turkey and found that lower-ranked employees, namely, research assistants, hide more knowledge than assistant professors.…”
Section: Empirical Review and Integrative Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Shen, Li, Sun, Chen, and Wang's article () pushes this theme forward: that socially deviant information practices such as knowledge withholding and hoarding are equally valid and viable, especially in online interactions where relationships among the users are loose. Sun and colleagues examine such interactions in a Chinese social network and online question answering and discussion community and raise questions about the transactional costs of knowledge sharing, costs that have seldom been discussed in the social informatics literature.…”
Section: In This Issuementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Jha and Varkkey [7] defined knowledge hiding as knowledge creators' intentional concealment of knowledge. It can be characterized as a new social counterproductive behavior for knowledge practice in OKCs that has emerged recently [1,8]. Knowledge hiding is more than just the polar opposite of knowledge sharing [9,10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For this reason, factors fostering knowledge hiding should be induced by different sources. Studies in knowledge management pointed out that counterproductive knowledge behaviors such as knowledge hiding should be given more attention because many measures aimed at motivating knowledge sharing in OKCs have failed to meet the operation expectations in these communities [4,8,11,12].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%