Knowledge sharing facilitators in highly innovative manufacturing firms: Interaction terms shaping employees’ orientation in exchanging information

This paper empirically tests a research model trying to expand the contribution of prior researches investigating the micro-foundations of KS behaviours. By analyzing survey data of 754 workers from 24 international and highly innovative manufacturing firms, we provide empirical evidence about the important role played by employees’ enjoyment in helping others in supporting KS activities within the firm as well as about the moderation effect that macro-level variables (i.e. extrinsic rewards and organizational integrating mechanisms) have on our dependent variable (i.e. employees’ KS behaviours).