Knowledge Sharing and Creativity: Individual and Organizational Perspective

Aleksandra Rudawska

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30549-9_5

Knowledge Sharing and Creativity: Individual and Organizational Perspective

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The flow of knowledge between employees contributes to the knowledge development which in turn influences individual and organizational creativity. However knowledge sharing by employees is not a simplistic and homogeneous behaviour. Basing on the literature review in the area of intraorganizational knowledge sharing and creativity, the author aims to explain the relation between giving knowledge and individual (giver) creativity, and organizational creativity. The knowledge sharing is analysed from the knowledge giver perspective. Author has distinguished two forms of knowledge giving - proactive and reactive - that are situation depended.

This conceptual article indicates that proactive and reactive knowledge sharing relate differently with creativity and that sharing knowledge with others is not always positive to the giver’s creativity, while it is influential for organizational creativity. The theoretical deliberations are summarised in 9 propositions. They indicate that managers need to take into account the likelihood of individual creativity loss as a cost of reactive knowledge sharing, otherwise the quality of sharing could be harmed by knowledge manipulation by the sharer, with a negative influence on organizational creativity.

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Aleksandra Rudawska Ph.D.

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Category:: Other publications
Type:: Other publications
ISSN:: 2198-7246
Publication year:: 2020
Bibliographic description:: Rudawska, A. (2020). Knowledge sharing and creativity: Individual and organizational perspective. In A. Zakrzewska-Bielawska & I. Staniec (Eds.), Contemporary challenges in cooperation and coopetition in the age of industry 4.0: 10th Conference on Management of Organizations' Development (MOD) (pp.107-121). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30549-9_5
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/978-3-030-30549-9_5
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