Personality traits and knowledge sharing |
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| Authors: | Kurt Matzler, Birgit Renzl, Julia Mü ller, Stephan Herting,Todd A. Mooradian |
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| Affiliation: | aDepartment of International Management, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040 Linz, Austria;bDepartment of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, University of Innsbruck, Universitaetsstrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria;cInstitute of Management, University of St. Gallen, Dufourstrasse 40a, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland;dMason School of Business, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, we describe an empirical study that relates three personality traits (agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness) to knowledge sharing. In the existing literature considerable attention has been paid to managerial influences on knowledge sharing, technological support through information and communication systems, or individual characteristics like motivation or the perception of conflict of interest or vulnerability. Instead we concentrate on the role that personal dispositions play in individual’s knowledge sharing behavior. By means of structural equation modeling with PLS, we discover significant correlations between the personality traits and knowledge sharing within teams of an engineering company. Our results clearly contribute to the existing literature, as they offer empirical evidence of the impact of enduring individual characteristics on knowledge sharing. |
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| Keywords: | Knowledge sharing Tacit Knowledge Personality traits Agreeableness Conscientiousness Openness |
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