Exploring how psychological ownership affects the formation of the intention to share knowledge.

• Main Authors: Corey Kai-Shen Yeung, 楊啟誠
• Other Authors: Jack Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5p6tmj

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 管理學院國際經營管理碩士學程 === 106 === As the importance of knowledge sharing (KS) has risen, the amount of studies conducted on this specific subject area has increased along with it. There has been a substantial amount of research with motivation, such as the kinds of motivation that influences KS and how to motivate and encourage employees to effectively share useful knowledge. Despite the amount of studies in KS, a current area that had yet to be researched on and can have an incredible influence on the intention to share knowledge is psychological ownership (PO). Though there have been studies on PO and KS, there has not been a study yet on how PO can impact the relationship between motivation and KS. In other words, if PO acts as a moderator, what kind of significance and effect does it have on this relationship between motivation and KS. Utilizing the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to distinguish and categorize the motivational factors, this study researched the relationship of these motivational categories based on the SDT with the intention to share knowledge. 269 survey items were collected and showed positive results for the hypothesis’ tested based on the research model. The results displayed how PO influences the relationship between the SDT types of motivation and KS intention when acting as a moderating variable. This study demonstrated the importance motivation plays in sharing knowledge; the specific type of motivation and context it is operating under is pertinent as that influences how much of an impact it has on KS intention and whether the specific motivation is significant or not. This study also exhibited how PO acting as a moderator has several different kinds of implications for academics and practitioners alike.