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http://dx.doi.org/10.15813/kmr.2021.22.3.008

Agree or Disagree? An Insidious Obstacle to Knowledge Contribution: The Role of Team Status Disagreement  

Kang, Sung-Mo (Iowa State University)
Kwon, Sang-Jib (Hansung University)
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Knowledge Management Research / v.22, no.3, 2021 , pp. 129-149 More about this Journal
Abstract
Research on social hierarchy is a growing research topic in the studies of management and organization. Despite the abundance of studies demonstrating the relevance of social hierarchy in teams, little understanding exists for status disagreement among team members, specifically how status disagreement reduces team members' contributions to influence team performance. This conceptual study argues that team status disagreement negatively impacts team performance through reduced team member's knowledge contribution, including reduced team knowledge sharing and increased knowledge hiding. In addition, we propose that team skill differentiation aggravates the negative effect of status disagreement, such that when team skill differentiation is high, teams under high status disagreement are more likely to experience detracted team performance. This research mainly discusses status disagreement and its effect on team knowledge contributions by reviewing previous literature and developing several propositions, suggests theoretical contributions and practical implications, and presents an agenda for future research.
Keywords
Knowledge sharing; Knowledge hiding; Social hierarchy; Team performance;
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