Paper Type
Research-in-Progress Paper
Abstract
Using an experimental design to explore the individual and interactive effects of organizational commitment, likelihood of success of a knowledge management initiative, and importance ascribed to the KM initiative by a firm on a knowledge worker’s intention to share her knowledge, we find that importance by itself positively impacts knowledge sharing intent. The effect of importance appears to be enhanced (super-additively) by success likelihood. Organizational commitment is substitutable by the two factors of importance and success likelihood. Implications of these reported 2 and 3-way interactions are that seemingly logical influences may in actuality be conditional on other variables, i.e., their influences are configural. A KM effort that disregards any element of the triad does so at its own risk.
Recommended Citation
Iyer, Govind S. and Ravindran, Sury, "Organizational Commitment, Knowledge Management Initiative Importance And Success Likelihood As Antecedents Of Knowledge Sharing Intention: An Exploratory Study" (2013). AMCIS 2013 Proceedings. 14.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013/BusinessIntelligence/RoundTablePresentations/14
Organizational Commitment, Knowledge Management Initiative Importance And Success Likelihood As Antecedents Of Knowledge Sharing Intention: An Exploratory Study
Using an experimental design to explore the individual and interactive effects of organizational commitment, likelihood of success of a knowledge management initiative, and importance ascribed to the KM initiative by a firm on a knowledge worker’s intention to share her knowledge, we find that importance by itself positively impacts knowledge sharing intent. The effect of importance appears to be enhanced (super-additively) by success likelihood. Organizational commitment is substitutable by the two factors of importance and success likelihood. Implications of these reported 2 and 3-way interactions are that seemingly logical influences may in actuality be conditional on other variables, i.e., their influences are configural. A KM effort that disregards any element of the triad does so at its own risk.