@article{5424d0fce8494df6818fb26081988824,
title = "Enhancing Knowledge Sharing Behaviour in Building Academics{\textquoteright} Career Capital in Higher Education: The Mediating Role of Innovative Climate",
abstract = "The study aims to adopt an intention-based approach to examine the key factors influencing academics{\textquoteright} behaviour to share career capital tacit and explicit knowledge, foster innovations and to gain competitive advantages among higher education context. A research model was developed by successfully extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) with institutional forces (i.e. senior management support and innovative climate) to examine academics{\textquoteright} career capital knowledge sharing behaviour. A survey was conducted through a questionnaire among 234 academics in Hong Kong self-financing institutions and the data was analyzed using SmartPLS – Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. It was found that innovative climate of self-financing higher education institutions plays a mediating role in knowledge sharing intention among academics. The findings of this research help higher education institutions promote innovate climate and adopt innovative technologies to encourage knowledge sharing behaviour. Innovative climate fully mediates the relationship between knowledge sharing attitude and intention to share tacit and explicit career capital knowledge, as well as the relationship between senior management support and intention to share explicit career capital knowledge. Managerial implications are discussed and issues for further research are highlighted.",
keywords = "Career capital, Higher education, Innovative climate, Knowledge sharing, Structural equation modelling",
author = "Ng, \{Peggy Mei Lan\} and Wut, \{Tai Ming Edmund\} and Lo, \{Man Fung\}",
note = "Funding Information: The Hong Kong higher education comprises of publicly funded universities and self-financing institutions. Due to education reform and new policy of introduction of associate degrees in year 2001, self-financing institutions have expanded so fast. According to the figures provided by Hong Kong Education Bureau, there has been 40\% increment for post-secondary education qualifications. The aim of pushing up the post-secondary education chance for young people from 30 to 60\% has been met (Education Bureau, ). In 2010–2011 Policy Address, the Chief Executive with Executive Council of Hong Kong Special Administration Region proposed to increase the number of first year first degree places to 15,000 for each cohort from the 2012/13 academic year. This applies to the University Grant funded universities. According to Education Bureau, 25,300 students enrolled on self-financing associate degree courses in 2011/12 (Education Bureau, ) with an intense competition in the self-financing sub-degree sector. However, the intake enrolment number started to decrease from 2013/14 due to declining birth rate since 1997/98 (Education Bureau, ). Therefore, competition on student intake among self-financing institutions is becoming more severe (Wong et al., 2018). University Grant Committee offers research funding schemes for self-financing sector starting from 2014. All self-financing institutions fight for good student enrolment result each year, in order to gain a competitive advantage among all those institutions. Thus, building up career capital knowledge among academics is essential for knowledge-intensive institutions so that academics could be more innovative to share their valuable (i.e. tacit and explicit) knowledge to their students, launch new academic programmes and develop competitive research proposals (Lo et al., ; Hursen, ), enhancing innovation speed and quality in higher education context (Iqbal, ; Langseth et al., ). To this end, knowledge sharing among faculty members of higher education institutions has become crucial to enable institutions to foster innovations and develop competitive edges. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.",
year = "2022",
month = nov,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1007/s10758-022-09633-7",
language = "English",
volume = "29",
pages = "91--111",
journal = "Technology, Knowledge and Learning",
issn = "2211-1662",
publisher = "Springer Science + Business Media",
number = "1",
}