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Team reflexivity and employee innovative behavior: the mediating role of knowledge sharing and moderating role of leadership

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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by Z Wang, Shuang Ren, Doren Chadee, M Liu, S Cai

Purpose
Although team reflexivity has been identified as a potent tool for improving organizational performance, how and when it influences individual employee innovative behavior remains theoretically and conceptually underspecified. Taking a knowledge management perspective, this study aims to investigate the role of team-level knowledge sharing and leadership in transforming team reflexivity into innovative behavior at the individual level.


Design/methodology/approach
The paper follows a multilevel study design to collect data (n = 441) from 91 teams in 48 knowledge-based organizations. The paper tests our multilevel model using multinomial logistic techniques.


Findings
The overall results confirm that knowledge sharing in teams mediates the influence of team reflexivity on individual employee innovative behavior, and that leadership plays an important role in moderating these influences. Specifically, authoritarian leadership is found to attenuate the team reflexivity and knowledge sharing effect, whereas benevolent leadership is found to amplify this indirect effect.


Originality/value
The multilevel study design that explains how team-level processes translate into innovative behavior at the individual employee level is novel. Relatedly, our use of a multilevel analytical framework is also original.

History

Journal

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volume

25

Issue

6

Pagination

1619 - 1639

Publisher

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD

ISSN

1367-3270

eISSN

1758-7484

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

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