Do We Need to be Selfless? The Long-Term Effects of Egoistic and Altruistic Motivation on Organizational Knowledge Sharing

摘要：

　　Recent research has explored two main explanations for knowledge contribution in organizations-selfless altruism and egoistic motivation based on expectation of reciprocal favors.However,little empirical research has distinguished the long-term effects driven by two kinds of motivations.In this paper,we distinguished decision-making mechanisms under egoism and altruism respectively.We identified collective benefits of knowledge sharing on dyadic level(knowledge sharing volume and balance of knowledge contribution).Results in this study are quite counterintuitive: compared with selfless motivation,reciprocal behavior in knowledge sharing leads to greater collective benefits.Our findings challenge the long-standing idea that altruism will solve knowledge sharing dilemma automatically.

作者: JIE GU XU LIU YUNJIE XU HONG LING

作者单位: Information Management and Information Systems,Fudan University.670 Guoshun Road,Shanghai 200433 Information Management and Information Systems,Fudan University

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2014 International Conference on Management and Engineering(CME 2014)(2014管理与工程国际会议)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-7

在线出版日期: 2014-05-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）