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How to Stimulate Continuous Innovative Knowledge Contribution? Mediation by Self-Efficacy and Moderation by Knowledge Level

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Taking the perspective of innovative knowledge management, this study aimed to investigate the stimulation mechanism of continuous innovative knowledge contribution (CIKC). Through a quantitative study conducted in an open innovation community, we modeled a stimulus-organism-response framework to conduct a path analysis from the external environment to internal cognition, and then to knowledge contribution, and filled in the gaps in the mediating and moderating mechanisms. We focused on the stimuli of knowledge contribution, in view of both quantity and quality. Panel data from six periods in one year was collected for dynamic analysis, and we used the fixed effect model to test our hypotheses of mediation effect, moderation effect, and mediated-moderation effect. There were some interesting findings, showing that user's self-efficacy plays a partial mediating role in the quantity, rather than the quality, of CIKC; meanwhile, the users' knowledge level plays a moderating role, and there is a negative moderating mechanism of knowledge level in the process from participation value to the quality of CIKC.

Source: Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.3390/bs14080691

Authors: Jun Wang, Shan Jiang, Ou Liu, Yani Wang

Institutions: Beihang University, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Capital Medical University

Language: English

Topic: Knowledge Management and Sharing

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,501

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University