“…When employees can freely share information and views with their managers, it allows the latter to stay in touch with their employees and detect emerging trends and problems in the marketplace (Tourish, 2005). Given that innovation heavily relies on information sharing to find unknown knowledge and integrate knowledge in a novel way (Nonaka, Toyama and Nagata, 2000; Camelo-Ordaz, Garcia-Cruz, Sousa-Ginel and Valle-Cabrera, 2011; Lin and Sanders, 2017) and given the impact of power distance on communication across hierarchies (Morrison and Milliken, 2000;Koc, 2013), such a focus has unique value for this study.…”