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Knowledge Sharing Routines in Inter-Organizational Relationships and in the Presence of Partner-Specific Absorptive Capacity and Incentives for Transparency: The Moderating Role of Information Technology

To stay competitive, organizations frequently need to access and manage knowledge resources external to their boundaries. Inter-organizational relationships (IORs) are a typical mechanism to achieve these goals. Relational governance mechanisms are germane to this context and knowledge sharing routines (KSR), a component of relational governance, are critical to knowledge management in such situations. This paper examines the relationship between KSR and IOR outcomes in normal contexts, and in the presence of partner-specific absorptive capacity and of incentives encouraging transparency. The moderating role of IT usage on all these relationship is examined. The hypotheses are validated using meta-analytic procedure, which enables one to glean an overall view of findings in prior literature on the relationships of interest.