Theoretical and Empirical Study on Knowledge Sharing Behaviors, knowledge learning Orientation and Social Exchange of Knowledge

This paper develops and tests a model explaining the effects of an organization's context and the nature of relationship between coworkers on knowledge sharing behaviors from the perspective of knowledge source, supervisor, and knowledge recipient. Results show that knowledge source's perception that organization fosters its knowledge learning orientation is positively related to source's assessment of knowledge sharing behavior. Furthermore, as source-recipient relationship becomes stronger the negative effect of source's knowledge performance-prove orientation on its assessment of knowledge sharing behavior strengthens and the positive effect of source's knowledge performance-avoid orientation on recipient's perception of source's knowledge sharing behaviors weakens.