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Knowledge sharing and innovative work behaviour in healthcare : a micro-level investigation of direct and indirect effects
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Radaelli, Giovanni, Lettieri, Emanuele, Mura, Matteo and Spiller, Nicola (2014) Knowledge sharing and innovative work behaviour in healthcare : a micro-level investigation of direct and indirect effects. Creativity and Innovation Management, 23 (4). pp. 400-414. doi:10.1111/caim.12084
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/caim.12084
Abstract
This study presents a micro-level investigation that provides new insights into how employees' knowledge sharing affects their own innovative work behaviours (IWBs). Our study posited three mechanisms linking an individual's knowledge sharing behaviours to his or her own IWBs: (i) a direct effect whereby the act of sharing elicits a recombination and translation of knowledge that facilitates innovation; (ii) an indirect effect whereby knowledge sharing creates social conditions (i.e., reciprocation with new knowledge) for innovation; (iii) a distal effect whereby the antecedents of knowledge sharing also promote innovation. We tested these hypotheses on 155 employees in four palliative care organizations. Our results provide original evidence that employees who share knowledge also engage more in creating, promoting and implementing innovations. This study reveals a direct, unmediated link between knowledge sharing behaviours and IWBs. Our evidence suggests that it is the act of knowledge recombination and translation embedded in knowledge sharing that exerts the most positive effect on IWBs. We discuss how this result indicates that sharing knowledge ignites transformation and exploitation capabilities that help sharers innovate their own work practices.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Creativity and Innovation Management | ||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0963-1690 | ||||||
| Official Date: | December 2014 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 23 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 400-414 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/caim.12084 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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