How does Psychological Ownership Affect the Willingness of the Entrepreneurial Team Members to Share Knowledge? ——A Multi-level Empirical Study

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the sample data of 173 Chinese entrepreneurial teams, this paper uses the multi-layer structural equation model (MSEM) to study the influence of individual psychological ownership and collective psychological ownership on the willingness of entrepreneurial team members to share knowledge from the relevant theories of social psychology. The results show that collective psychological ownership and individual psychological ownership have a significant positive effect on the trust between the members of the entrepreneurial team, and the collective psychological ownership can positively influence the willingness of knowledge sharing in the member team through the intermediary role of the entrepreneurial team members’ trust, and negatively affect the willingness of members to share knowledge outside the team. The individual psychological ownership can only positively influence the willingness of knowledge sharing in the member team through the intermediary role of trust among the members of the entrepreneurial team, and the influence on the willingness of knowledge sharing outside the team is not significant. This study further clarifies the relationship between the two levels of psychological ownership on the in-team knowledge sharing and off-team knowledge sharing, expands the theory of psychological ownership and provides theoretical guidance for the entrepreneurial team to deal with the knowledge sharing of members.

Key words: individual psychological ownership, collective psychological ownership, entrepreneurial team, team members’ trust, willingness to share knowledge

Liang Yan, Zhao Chenhui. How does Psychological Ownership Affect the Willingness of the Entrepreneurial Team Members to Share Knowledge? ——A Multi-level Empirical Study[J]. Management Review, 2022, 34(4): 185-193.

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