Journal ArticleDOI
The Openness of Knowledge Sharing within Organizations: A Comparative Study of the United States and the People's Republic of China
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This paper examined the interaction effects of national culture and contextual factors (nature of the knowledge and the relationship between the knowledge sharer and recipient) on employees' tendency to share knowledge with co-workers.Abstract:
This study examines empirically the interaction effects of national culture and contextual factors (nature of the knowledge and the relationship between the knowledge sharer and recipient) on employees' tendency to share knowledge with co‐workers. Quantitative and open‐ended responses to two scenarios were collected from 142 managers (104 from the U.S. and 38 from the People's Republic of China). These two nations were selected due to their divergence on salient aspects of national culture, as well as their global political and economic importance. The focus on interaction effects was aimed at providing a more powerful test of culture's effects than simple comparisons of means typical of prior related research. Consistent with culture‐based expectation, the quantitative results indicated that Chinese vs. U.S. nationals' openness of knowledge sharing was related to their different degrees of collectivism—the relative emphasis on self vs. collective interests—as well as whether knowledge sharing involved a ...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Knowledge sharing: A review and directions for future research
Sheng Wang,Raymond A. Noe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a framework for understanding knowledge sharing research and identified five areas of emphasis of knowledge sharing: organizational context, interpersonal and team characteristics, cultural characteristics, individual characteristics, and motivational factors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Review: a review of culture in information systems research: toward a theory of information technology culture conflict
TL;DR: A review of the organizational and cross-cultural IT literature is provided in order to lend insights into the understanding of the linkages between IT and culture and develops a theory of IT, values, and conflict.
Journal ArticleDOI
Three‐dozen knowledge‐sharing barriers managers must consider
TL;DR: A detailed review of current KM and related literatures on a large number of possible knowledge-sharing barriers, bringing together a large range of knowledgesharing barriers in an attempt to indicate the complexity of knowledge sharing as a value-creating organisational activity.
Journal ArticleDOI
The impact of power and relationship commitment on the integration between manufacturers and customers in a supply chain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between power, relationship commitment and the integration between manufacturers and their customers and found that different types of customer power impact manufacturers' relationship commitment in different ways.
Journal ArticleDOI
Mapping management accounting: graphics and guidelines for theory-consistent empirical research
Joan L. Luft,Michael D. Shields +1 more
TL;DR: The authors provide a summary graphic representation (maps) of the theory-consistent evidence about the causes and effects of management accounting, as presented in 275 articles published in six leading journals.
References
More filters
Book
Culture′s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values
TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.
TL;DR: Theories of the self from both psychology and anthropology are integrated to define in detail the difference between a construal of self as independent and a construpal of the Self as interdependent as discussed by the authors, and these divergent construals should have specific consequences for cognition, emotion, and motivation.
Book
Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
TL;DR: In this article, the differences in the way strategists and their followers think are discussed, and practical solutions for those in business to help solve conflict between different groups are proposed, with a focus on how to find common problems which demand cooperation for the solution of these problems.
Book
Individualism And Collectivism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how the terms individualism and collectivism are used by an evergrowing legion of users and no one is better equipped to understand how these terms are used.
Journal ArticleDOI
The myopia of learning
TL;DR: The imperfections of learning are not so great as to require abandoning attempts to improve the learning capabilities of organizations, but that those imperfections suggest a certain conservatism in expectations.