Dual Commitments and Knowledge Sharing in Supply Chain Collaborative Innovation
As an important part in supply chain collaborative innovation, knowledge sharing is strongly influenced by the dual commitments of employees. To achieve effective knowledge sharing in the project, the reason for employee’s dual commitments is analyzed, an
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Dual Commitments and Knowledge Sharing in Supply Chain Collaborative Innovation Xu-Mei Zhang, Xiao-Ping Mao and Xiang-Yu Liu
Abstract As an important part in supply chain collaborative innovation, knowledge sharing is strongly influenced by the dual commitments of employees. To achieve effective knowledge sharing in the project, the reason for employee’s dual commitments is analyzed, and the employee’s characteristics and knowledge sharing behavior are dissected from the perspective of project commitment and company commitment. As a result, different management strategies for self-committed employees, company committed employees, project committed employees, and dual-high committed employees are presented. It shows that the employees could be encouraged to be loyal to the project and company, and take the right knowledge sharing behavior. Finally, some insights are given to managers on project management to help them in promoting knowledge sharing. Keywords Supply chain Knowledge sharing
Collaborative innovation
Dual commitments
106.1 Introduction As the knowledge economy plays an increasingly important role in the twenty-first century, in order to remain competitive in the marketplace, companies must conduct continual knowledge innovation which depends on the companies’ own scarcity knowledge and the external critical knowledge obtained through knowledge sharing with outside organizations. As the supply chain turns out to be an X.-M. Zhang (&) X.-P. Mao X.-Y. Liu Chongqing University, Shazheng street, 174, Chongqing 400044, China e-mail: [email protected]
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important external knowledge source, more and more companies begin to carry out collaborative innovation in the supply chain in order to continuously improve their knowledge innovation capability. Due to the fact that knowledge exists in the employee’s brains, the knowledge sharing behavior of the individuals who participate in supply chain collaborative innovation projects exerts enormous influence on collaborative innovation. Employees who serve two masters that have inconsistent goals will show the characteristics of dual commitments. For example, the union members show commitment to both the union and the company, and contingent employees show commitment to their agencies and client companies [1, 2]. Meanwhile, the employees participating in supply chain collaborative innovation project display commitment to both the company and the project. Considering that the commitment of the employees have a strong influence on their knowledge sharing behavior, it is significant to conduct knowledge sharing research based on the dual commitments of the employees involved in supply chain collaborative innovation projects [3, 4]. The issue of supply chain collaborative innovation has been widely r
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