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Impact of work values and knowledge sharing on creative performance

Hualiang Ren (School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China)
Qinglei Zhang (School of Marketing and Logistics Management, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China)
Ying Zheng (School of Business, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China)

Chinese Management Studies

ISSN: 1750-614X

Article publication date: 21 July 2020

Issue publication date: 15 March 2021

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to find the influence of employees’ work values on their creative performance and test the role of knowledge sharing among them.

Design/methodology/approach

This work surveyed 387 employees in six companies across three cities to test the research hypothesis model.

Findings

The findings reveal that comfort and security (comfort) work values have a significant negative impact on the creative performance, whereas competence and growth (competence) work values and status and independence (status) work values have a significant positive impact on creative performance. Knowledge sharing plays a mediating role between work values and creative performance.

Originality/value

This study reveals the influence mechanism of work values on creative performance from a new perspective and confirms the differing effects of different types of work values on creative performance.

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Acknowledgements

The funding for this study is provided by Foundation of Humanities and Social Science of the Ministry of Education of China, Youth Program under Grant [Number 18YJC630265], A study on the abandonment of patent option through the strategic perspective; Foundation of Humanities and Social Science of the Ministry of Education of China, Youth Program under Grant [Number 16YJC630100], The creative research of new generation employees based on the perspective of work values; Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China, Youth Program under Grant [Number 18GLC004], A study on the financing value of patent asset; Universities’ Philosophy and Social Science Researches in Jiangsu Province, General Program, Research on the influence of shareholder governance of private enterprises on innovation of private under the background of mixed ownership reform.

Citation

Ren, H., Zhang, Q. and Zheng, Y. (2021), "Impact of work values and knowledge sharing on creative performance", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-08-2019-0287

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