Paper Info
Title
Withholding effort in knowledge contribution: The role of social exchange and social cognitive on project teams
Abstract
Few investigations have been made to determine what factors influence people in withholding knowledge from their colleagues. We created a construct, knowledge withholding (KW), defined as the likelihood that individuals contribute less knowledge to others in the organization than they could. We have formulated a model, based on social exchange theory and social cognition theory, to analyze the antecedents of KW from both personal and contextual perspectives. The contextual influencers were subdivided into dimensions of rational choice, normative conformity, and affective bonding to help in understanding KW. Results of a survey of 162 MIS alumni of a university, who had experienced software development, trust, distributive justice, and team-related work showed that personal outcome expectations had a substantial influence on KW.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.im.2010.02.001
Information & Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
social cognition theory,contextual influencers,personal outcome expectation,social cognitive theory,project team,self-efficacy,knowledge withholding,knowledge contribution,social cognitive,social exchange theory,contextual perspective,mis alumnus,withholding effort,substantial influence,distributive justice,affective bonding,self efficacy,social exchange
Social relation,Social psychology,Distributive justice,Normative social influence,Sociology,Social cognitive theory,Knowledge engineering,Social cognition,Conformity,Social exchange theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
47
3
Information & Management
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
40
1.11
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tung-Ching Lin145723.91
Chien-Chih Huang222410.26