How leadership enhances employees' knowledge sharing: The intervening roles of relational and organizational identification

Journal of Technology Transfer

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 257-274

  Carmeli, Abraham ^a   Atwater, Leanne ^b   Levi, Avi ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Leadership; Organizational identification; Relational identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955850574     PISSN: 08929912     EISSN: 15737047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10961-010-9154-y     Document Type: Article

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