What Drives Students' Knowledge-Withholding Intention in Management Education?

Wang, Yi-Shun; Lin, Hsin Hui; Li, Ci Rong; Lin, Shin Jeng

doi:10.5465/amle.2013.0066

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“…As such, although companies seek to facilitate knowledge transfer, employees may lose the informational advantage embedded in privately held knowledge if doing so. Thus, hiding knowledge from colleagues is a useful strategy to maintain the uniqueness of one's knowledge and one's competitive advantage, considering that the instrumental value of knowledge is often evaluated via social comparison (Wang, Lin, Li, & Lin, 2013). Studies have demonstrated that social comparison or competition is a key reason for knowledge hiding (e.g., Steinel, Utz, & Koning, 2010;Toma & Butera, 2009).…”

Section: Performance-prove Goal Orientation and Knowledge Hidingmentioning

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Rivals or allies: How performance‐prove goal orientation influences knowledge hiding

Zhu

Chen²,

Wang

et al. 2019

J Organ Behavior

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Summary Previous research suggests that performance‐prove goal orientation is positively related to knowledge hiding. However, we argue that this effect depends on the focus of performance feedback (i.e., individual‐ and group‐focused feedback), which shapes the nature of the competitive expression of performance‐prove goal orientation (i.e., intragroup and intergroup oriented). We conducted three studies to test our theoretical model. The results of Study 1 with time‐lagged data from 128 part‐time MBA students showed that performance‐prove goal orientation was positively related to knowledge hiding when performance feedback focused more (vs. less) on individual performance but was negatively related to knowledge hiding when performance feedback focused more (vs. less) on group performance. Study 2 replicated these moderation findings in an experimental study of 210 undergraduate students. Study 3 again replicated the moderation effects using multisource data from 317 employees and their supervisors. It also included creativity as an outcome of knowledge hiding and illustrated the distal consequence of the moderation effects of individual‐ and group‐focused performance feedback. We then discussed the implications for the theory and practice of performance‐prove goal orientation and knowledge hiding.

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Section: Performance-prove Goal Orientation and Knowledge Hidingmentioning

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Rivals or allies: How performance‐prove goal orientation influences knowledge hiding

Zhu

Chen²,

Wang

et al. 2019

J Organ Behavior

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“…Knowledge withholding represents an emerging research field in recent years (for example, Lin & Huang, 2010;Lin & Wang, 2012;Tsay et al, 2014;Wang, Lin, Li, & Lin, 2014). To adequately conceptualize the phenomenon of knowledge withholding, this study attempts to define knowledge withholding based on the effort-withholding perspective (Kidwell & Bennett, 1993), as recommended by Lin and Huang (2010).…”

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Knowledge withholding in online knowledge spaces: Social deviance behavior and secondary control perspective

Shen

Sun

et al. 2019

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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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 understand how people deal with counterproductive knowledge behaviors, this study develops a research model based on the secondary control perspective. Empirical analyses were conducted using the data collected from an online knowledge space. The results indicate that both predictive control and vicarious control exert a positive influence on knowledge withholding. This study also incorporates knowledge‐withholding acceptability as a moderating variable of secondary control strategies. In particular, knowledge‐withholding acceptability enhances the impact of predictive control, whereas it weakens the effect of vicarious control on knowledge withholding. This study concludes with a discussion of the key findings, and the implications for both research and practice.

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“…However, thus far, few research have examined the relationship between individual personality and knowledge hiding [1] [7]. We speculate that one personality influencing knowledge hiding is Machiavellianism.…”

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“…In addition, two task variables, task interdependence and task visibility, influence knowledge withholding intention through knowledge withholding self-efficacy. Wang et al (2014) examine the relationship between big five personality traits and knowledge withholding, and their results indicate that extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience indirectly influence knowledge withholding intention through the mediation of perceived social identity [7]. Pan and Zhang (2014) adopt the WuliRenli-Shili System Approach, an oriental system thinking, to systematically delve into factors of knowledge hiding among graduate students.…”

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Does Darker Hide More Knowledge? The Relationship between Machiavellianism and Knowledge Hiding

Pan¹,

Zhou²,

Zhang³

2016

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What Drives Students' Knowledge-Withholding Intention in Management Education?

Cited by 44 publications

References 110 publications

Rivals or allies: How performance‐prove goal orientation influences knowledge hiding

Rivals or allies: How performance‐prove goal orientation influences knowledge hiding

Knowledge withholding in online knowledge spaces: Social deviance behavior and secondary control perspective

Does Darker Hide More Knowledge? The Relationship between Machiavellianism and Knowledge Hiding

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