“…Within organizations, knowledge hiding is generally observed in different forms such as playing dumb, evasive hiding, rationalized hiding, and counter-questioning (Connelly et al ., 2012; Jha and Varkkey, 2018). Academic researchers have established the existence of multiple strategic factors that engender knowledge hiding, including job insecurity (Ashford et al ., 1989; De Witte, 1999; Serenko and Bontis, 2016), workplace ostracism (Bogilović et al ., 2017; Černe et al ., 2017), territoriality (Peng, 2013; Singh, 2019), trust deficit (Ford and Staples, 2010; Issac and Baral, 2020a), complexity and uncertainty of task (Boz Semerci, 2019; Hernaus et al ., 2019; Kang, 2016), reciprocity (Ayub et al ., 2021; Zhao et al ., 2016), personality traits (Demirkasimoglu, 2015; Jain and Jain, 2014), emotional intelligence (Burmeister et al ., 2019; de Geofroy and Evans, 2017), and the non-availability of knowledge management systems (Issac and Baral, 2020b; Lanke, 2018). Research has also shown that knowledge hiding could be mitigated to a certain extent with the aid of ethical leadership (Koay and Lim, 2022), keeping a check on organizational politics (Al-Alawi et al ., 2007; Qureshi and Evans, 2015), avoiding externalities such as time pressures (Škerlavaj et al ., 2018) and dynamic cultural strength coupled with pro-social motivation (Demirkasimoglu, 2015; Issac et al ., 2020).…”