Factors influencing knowledge-sharing behaviors and learning effect: A multilevel investigation

In this longitudinal study, we investigated the effects of the Big Five personality traits, team characteristics, and the cross-level interactions on individual knowledge-sharing behaviors (KSBs). Using the survey data of 481 Chinese university students who had been assigned to 67 teams, we found that conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness explained within-team variance of KSBs, and that team identification and innovation climate accounted for between-team variance of KSBs. Individual KSBs aggregated to the team level explained the between-team variance of the individual learning effect.