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Information Sharing/Exchange

Definition

“Information sharing is a central process through which team members collectively utilize their available informational resources.” (Mesmer-Magnus, & DeChurch, 2009, p. 535)

Key References

  • Mesmer-Magnus, J. R., & DeChurch, L. A. (2009). Information sharing and team performance: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(2), 535–546. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013773
    • Used meta-analysis to demonstrate the importance of information sharing to team performance, cohesion, decision satisfaction, and knowledge integration.
  • Zhou, H., & Benton, W. C. (2007). Supply Chain Practice and information sharing. Journal of Operations Management, 25(6), 1348–1365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2007.01.009
    • Investigated the implication of information sharing in a supply chain management context. Found that effective information sharing had a positive and significant impact on performance.
  • Haeussler, C. (2011). Information-sharing in academia and the industry: A comparative study. Research Policy, 40(1), 105–122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2010.08.007
    • Investigated the factors related to high likelihood of information sharing among scientists. Found the influences on information sharing are dependent on the context of the scientist.

Key Measurements

  • Baihaqi & Sohal 2012: 4 dimension Intensity of information sharing measure
    • Baihaqi, I., & Sohal, A. S. (2012). The impact of information sharing in supply chains on organizational performance: an empirical study. Production Planning & Control, 24(8–9), 743–758. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2012.666865

Recent Articles

  • Hu, J., Erdogan, B., Jiang, K., Bauer, T. N., & Liu, S. (2018). Leader humility and team creativity: The role of team information sharing, psychological safety, and power distance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(3), 313–323. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000277
    • Integrated research on creativity and leadership to explore the relationship between leadership and creativity with team information sharing as a mediator.
    • Found a positive relationship between leader humility and team information sharing only within teams with a low power distance value.
    • Found that team information sharing and psychology safety were signficiantly related to team creativity.
  • Yang, T.M., & Maxwell, T.A. (2011). Information-sharing in public organizations: A literature review of interpersonal, intra-organizational and inter-organizational success factors. Government Information Quarterly, 28(2), 164–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2010.06.008
    • Reviewed current information-sharing research with focus on the interpersonal, intra-organizational, and interorganizational levels to provide summative frameworks to discover future research opportunities.
  • Gong, Y., Kim, T.Y., Lee, D.R., & Zhu, J. (2013). A multilevel model of team goal orientation, information exchange, and creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 56(3), 827–851. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.0177
    • Examined how team goal orientation may lead to team creativity and the bottom-up processes linking team and invidual creativity.
    • Found that a team performance approach is positively related to team creativity through team information exchange.