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Do You Know What I Know? Intent to Share Knowledge in the US and Ukraine

Authors: Wayne H. Stewart Jr., Ruth C. May, Donna E. Ledgerwood

Published in: Management International Review | Issue 6/2015

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Abstract

Knowledge is a strategically important resource, but research is needed to elucidate individual issues in knowledge sharing, particularly cross-contextual examinations. Thus, we developed a contextualized, extended model of knowledge sharing intentions based on the theory of planned behavior, and tested it using large samples of employees from the US, and from Ukraine, where anecdotal evidence suggests pandemic knowledge hoarding. Tests of the model in each country produced significant results for all of the path coefficients in the US, and for all but two paths in Ukraine. Comparative analysis for hypothesis testing indicated that, overall, individuals’ dispositions and attitudes were more relevant for understanding knowledge sharing intentions in the individualistic context of the US, while collective, relational elements were stronger in Ukraine, but with notable exceptions, particularly the influence of societal knowledge control norms. The results provide important implications for theory concerning knowledge sharing across contexts, including institutional theory assumptions, and for efficaciously managing knowledge processes, including cross-national knowledge transfers.

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Although we do not advance hypotheses in each country, the necessary analysis in each country indicates that all of the path coefficients were statistically significant (the weakest being p < 0.01) in the US, and that only two path coefficients, those between conscientiousness and knowledge sharing attitudes, and between fear of negative evaluation and relational screening, were not statistically significant in Ukraine. Also, a 95 % confidence interval supported the indirect effects of control norms in both countries. A 99 % confidence interval confirmed the indirect effects of control norms in Ukraine, and the effects of control norms via attitudes in the US. Yet, the effect of control norms via relational screening was not confirmed in the US, as the confidence interval included zero. Complete results concerning indirect effects are available from the authors.

We thank Professor Henseler for providing the necessary program for conducting this test.

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Title: Do You Know What I Know? Intent to Share Knowledge in the US and Ukraine
Authors: Wayne H. Stewart Jr.
Ruth C. May
Donna E. Ledgerwood
Publication date: 24-05-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Management International Review / Issue 6/2015
Print ISSN: 0938-8249
Electronic ISSN: 1861-8901
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-015-0252-9

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