Impact of psychological contract in knowledge sharing: A case study from Industrial Cluster Enterprises

Abstract

Psychological contract plays a critical role in knowledge sharing. In this paper, we have analyzed the influence of psychological contract and affective commitment to knowledge sharing in China. After using AMOS software for data processing by employing data on the questionnaire, which indicated that there are high consistency and stability and good convergence validity and construction reliability among variables, the multiple Ordinary Least Square(OLS) method was utilized in the study. There are 183 questionnaires were received in the experiment. After analysis, 157 questionnaires were valid for the research; the effective recovery rate was about to 86%. Based on the study, the conclusion could be conducted that the relationship contract and development contract of enterprise technical staff have positive impacts to knowledge sharing, On the contrary, the transaction contract has a negative impact to knowledge sharing.