Abstract
The objectives of this paper were to study the different relationships between different types of knowledge sharing and academics' creativity and found these results: 1) Intergenerational Knowledge Sharing (IGKS) positively related to academics' creativity. 2) peer-to-peer knowledge sharing (PPKS) positively related to academics' creativity. 3) online knowledge sharing has a stronger influence on creativity than offline knowledge sharing. 4) Regardless of the communication method used, the positive impact of intergenerational knowledge sharing on academics' creativity is stronger than peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.
Highlights
With the advent of the knowledge economy, knowledge transfer, integration, sharing, creativity, and innovation have become important research issues in the fields of knowledge management and knowledge innovation in recent years (Pittaway, Robertson, Munir, et al, 2004)
This paper found that intergenerational knowledge sharing was positively related to academics' creativity
This shows that intergenerational knowledge sharing can promote academics to create more new ideas, and provide data support for the ideas of intergenerational knowledge sharing that is beneficial to knowledge creation
Summary
With the advent of the knowledge economy, knowledge transfer, integration, sharing, creativity, and innovation have become important research issues in the fields of knowledge management and knowledge innovation in recent years (Pittaway, Robertson, Munir, et al, 2004). Creativity and innovation have become one of the important contents of China's current innovation and development. Due to less research study of this topic in China even though the subject is becoming more and more important, the author of this current study aims to investigate the influence of knowledge sharing on academics' creativity. Studies have pointed out that social media can achieve organizational innovation by promoting organizational knowledge sharing (Leonardi, 2014), the past researches show that there is no difference between online knowledge sharing and offline knowledge sharing impact on academic creativity
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