Social-Psychological Factors and Knowledge Sharing During Product Development: A Study in India

Kumar, Ajith J (2014) Social-Psychological Factors and Knowledge Sharing During Product Development: A Study in India. International Journal of Knowledge Management and Practices, 2 (2). pp. 6-14.

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Abstract

In this study, we examined relationships between social-psychological factors(SPFs) and knowledge sharing between individuals during product development (PD). More specifically, we examined the influence of three SPFs from the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB)– attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control – upon individual knowledge sharing, during PD work. We characterized knowledge sharing two-fold as: codification and ersonalisation. We then used data from a sample of 284 individuals across 19 PD units of Indian manufacturing organisations to test hypotheses relating the SPFs to knowledge sharing behaviour. A key finding of this study is that attitude does not have a significant association with knowledge sharing but both subjective norm and perceived behavioural control do. The study draws attention to the idea that PD managers must pay careful attention to social-psychological aspects of individuals when they design knowledge management initiatives to improve performance. Future studies can also examine the same question with larger samples and across multiple contexts. A distinct feature of our study is the use of the TPB to study these relationships in the PD context.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Social-Psychological Factors; Knowledge Sharing; Product Development; India
Subjects:	Operations Management
Divisions:	Operations and Information Science
Depositing User:	Mr. Muralidhara D
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2018 10:26
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2018 10:26
URI:	http://tapmi.informaticsglobal.com/id/eprint/543

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