An exploratory configurational analysis of knowledge hiding antecedents in project teams

Salem Moh'd, Shaima' (author), Černe, Matej (author), Zhang, Pengcheng (author)

Drawing on achievement goal theory and job design frameworks, this study explores how certain antecedents combine in configurations to trigger knowledge hiding behavior among project teammates. We, therefore, adopted a configurational approach and performed fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to a data set of 292 employees nested into 10 Chinese medium-sized firms. This inductive analytic approach enabled us to explore configurations of conditions of different levels of antecedents. Results identified four equifinal configurations of antecedents leading to knowledge hiding in project teams, in addition to six different configurations restraining this behavior, generating propositions to be tested by future research in a deductive manner. Our study may guide firms to better counteract and manage knowledge hiding behavior in teams by suggesting different pathways and solutions that can minimize knowledge hiding behavior among project team members.

• Language: English
• Keywords: enterprises, projects, team work, knowledge transfer
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2020
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-118092
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 8756-9728
• DOI: 10.1177/8756972820939768
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24707075
• Publication date in RUL: 19.08.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Project management journal
• Shortened title: Proj. manage. j.
• Publisher: Project Management Institute
• ISSN: 8756-9728
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1072405

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 19.08.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podjetje, projekti, teamsko delo, prenos znanja

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-9329
• Name: Poslovna analitika in poslovni modeli v oskrbovalnih verigah

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0410
• Name: Digitalizacija kot gonilo trajnostnega razvoja posameznika, organizacij in družbe