Enterprise social media usage and knowledge hiding: a motivation theory perspective

作者：Liang Ma, Xin Zhang, Xiaoyan Ding · 发表于：Journal of Knowledge Management · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1108/jkm-03-2020-0234 · 被引用次数：106 · 研究领域：Knowledge Management and Sharing、Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior、Organizational and Employee Performance

Purpose Reducing employees’ knowledge hiding is vital for enterprise managers. The development of enterprise social media brings opportunities for them to manage employees’ knowledge-hiding behaviors. However, whether the use of enterprise social media inhibits or promotes knowledge hiding is still unclear. The purpose of this study is to explore how enterprise social media usage affect employees' knowledge hiding. Design/methodology/approach Based on the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation model, this paper proposes a research model to investigate the relationship between enterprise social media usage and knowledge hiding, using a structural equation modeling analysis of 288 employees’ data. Findings The results show that work-related public social media usage has an inhibiting effect on employees’ knowledge hiding, whereas the effect of work-related private social media usage on employees’ knowledge hiding is not significant; socially related public social media and private social media usage has a promoting effect on employees’ knowledge hiding; and job engagement acts in a positive moderating role between socially related private and public social media usage and evasive hiding. Originality/value First, this paper contributes to knowledge-hiding literature by revealing the relationship between enterprise social media usage and knowledge hiding. Second, this study contributes to motivation theory by clarifying how the use of enterprise social media with different motivation...