Knowledge-sharing hostility, knowledge manipulation, and new product development performance

Abstract

New product development is an important driver of sustainable enterprise development. It is necessary to promote the knowledge sharing of heterogeneous individuals such as design, technology, market, and sociologists. This paper discusses the influence of negative individual knowledge management from the perspective of knowledge-sharing hostility and knowledge manipulation on the performance of new product development. To examine our hypotheses, we conducted a questionnaire survey of 438 employees in China. The results show that although knowledge manipulation contributes to individual innovation performance, it has an inverted U-shaped curve relationship with the team's product development performance. The hostility of knowledge sharing induces knowledge manipulation, which indirectly influences the performance of new product development. The coordination flexibility of R&D teams positively moderates the impact of knowledge manipulation on new product development. Implications and future research directions are discussed.

Role of organizational characteristics on counterproductive knowledge behavior: a meta-analysis

“…However, knowledge hoarding and knowledge sharing disengagement may be employees' less proactive behaviors mainly due to lack of time, appropriate channels and unforeseen objective circumstances (Huo et al, 2016). Individual initiative motivation is relatively weak, and generally may do not directly affect the Three dimensional questionnaire analysis (Cai and Ma, 2022;Husted et al, 2012) Knowledge sabotage An employee sabotaging or subverting the operation of the organization to achieve the personal purpose of the saboteur or to cause harm to employees or customers Critical incident technique (Serenko, 2019;Serenko and Choo, 2020) Source: Authors' own work knowledge of others. Knowledge hoarding is an extreme form of individual resistance to sharing market knowledge or intentional concealment (Holten et al, 2016).…”

“…Meanwhile, this paper has screened and summarized the existing research literature-related to CKB through systematic search and data coding methods. Based on Afshar-Jalili et al (2021) and Serenko’s (2023) classification of CKB, and taking into account the current state of research, we provide a summary of the constructs and corresponding measures that have been used in the literature to capture CKB, including knowledge withholding (Gonçalves et al , 2023; Shen et al , 2019), knowledge hoarding (Holten et al , 2016; Zhao and Xia, 2017), knowledge sharing disengagement (Ford et al , 2015), knowledge manipulation (Rhee and Choi, 2017), knowledge hiding (Connelly et al , 2012; Burmeister et al , 2019), knowledge sabotage (Serenko, 2019) and knowledge sharing hostility (Cai and Ma, 2022; Husted et al , 2012) (See Table 1).…”