Parallel mediating effect of knowledge sharing quality on team innovativeness

Knowledge sharing is commonly recognised as a key prerequisite of team innovativeness. What are the quality dimensions of knowledge sharing process that make it beneficial in terms of team innovativeness? This study examines the linkages among the four variables that affect the creation of intellectual capital, namely opportunity for exchange, value anticipation, motivation to engage and combination capability, as well as their influence on team innovativeness through the parallel mediating effect of the quality of knowledge and quality of knowledge sharing dimensions. Data were collected from 351 employees of the information technology (IT) sector in Shanghai. Path analysis was conducted to test the proposed hypotheses using the statistical package M-plus (v. 7). Results reveal that besides knowledge sharing quantitativeness there are other important quality dimensions that affect team innovativeness. Drawing on theoretical perspectives not previously utilised in the knowledge sharing literature, this paper sheds light on the influence quality of knowledge sharing can have on workgroups in terms of team innovativeness.