Moderating role of power distance in the relationship between leader-leader exchange (LLX) and knowledge sharing: is feedback-seeking behavior a missing link?
VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems
ISSN: 2059-5891
Article publication date: 27 December 2021
Issue publication date: 2 January 2024
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate the effect of leader-leader exchange (LLX) on knowledge sharing through feedback-seeking behavior. The study also explores the moderating role of power distance.
Design/methodology/approach
A cross-sectional data of 290 knowledge workers from manufacturing and service firms in India were taken as a sample of the study. The hypotheses were tested using confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression.
Findings
The results showed that LLX positively affects knowledge sharing and feedback-seeking behavior mediates the relationship between LLX and knowledge sharing. Moreover, power distance does not moderate the relationship between LLX and knowledge sharing.
Originality/value
The present study one of its kind explores the relationship between LLX, feedback-seeking behavior, knowledge sharing and power distance.
Keywords
Citation
Farooq, R. and Tripathi, N. (2024), "Moderating role of power distance in the relationship between leader-leader exchange (LLX) and knowledge sharing: is feedback-seeking behavior a missing link?", VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, Vol. 54 No. 1, pp. 129-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/VJIKMS-08-2021-0154
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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