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http://dx.doi.org/10.21219/jitam.2021.28.3.031

Relationship between Team Cohesion and Knowledge Hiding : Moderating Effects of Ethical Leadership  

Kang, Sora (School of Business, Hoseo University)
Han, Su Jin (School of Business, Hoseo University)
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Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management / v.28, no.3, 2021 , pp. 31-48 More about this Journal
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Knowledge is a key resource for organizations to gain and maintain competitive advantage. Therefore, it is important for organizations to motivate employees to share knowledge with each other in order to achieve optimal performance of knowledge resources. Despite the efforts of organizations to share knowledge, knowledge hiding is still prevalent among employees. In this paper, we want to analyze the factors that may cause more general and pervasive knowledge-hiding behavior in organizations through empirical analysis. The results of this study show that, first, the relationship between team cohesion and knowledge hiding has been verified differently depending on the sub-behavior of knowledge hiding : playing dumb, evasive hiding, and rationalized hiding. Team cohesion has been shown to significantly reduce the playing dumb and evasive hiding. On the other hand, it was shown that team cohesion did not have a significant causal relationship with rationalized hiding. Second, the moderating effect of ethical leadership has been statistically significant in terms of team cohesion and relationships with playing dumb and evasive hiding. In other words, the higher the ethical leadership, the stronger the negative relationship between team cohesion and knowledge hiding. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications of this paper and future research directions are discussed.
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Team Cohesion; Knowledge Hiding; Ethical Leadership;
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