Anke Baker - The Impact of Market Liberalization on Knowledge Sharing in the Utilities Industry

An Exploratory Study of Self-Organizing Processes

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The book originates from the organizational transformation processes in the German utilities industry that were triggered by market liberalization. It approaches the issue of violated trust within the utilities industry from an intra-organizational perspective. Trust is a key component of psychological contracts that, in turn, vastly influence the behaviour and commitment of employees. There are still only a few studies that address the situational context surrounding a psychological contract and its violation, although previous research clearly points in this direction. The existing concept of (broken) psychological contracts as suggested by Raja and his colleagues (2004) has been chosen as the basis for a new conceptual model. This explorative study expands their notion by including communities of practice as a potential element to leverage the negative consequences of broken psychological contracts and to eventually overcome the feelings of violation. Communities of practice represent an important contextual variable. Within organizations, violations of the psychological contract between employees and management have been identified as an important component serving to undermine trust. The increasingly competitive environment changes the internal organizational atmosphere – potentially resulting in unwillingly breaking the psychological contract and causing feelings of violation. As trust in the organization is lost, voluntary social groupings such as communities of practice are likely to become more prominent as intra-organizational shelters. They foster both trust and knowledge sharing. As knowledge has widely been acknowledged to be a core competitive capability for organizations, knowledge sharing can be interpreted as a highly desirable organizational behaviour with potential impact on a company’s competitiveness. The epistemological perspective of knowledge as a social construct is adopted for this paper as it allows for an integration of all…

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Management, Marktliberalisierung, Market Liberalization, Organisation, Organizational Behaviour, Knowledge Sharing, Communities of Practice, Psychological Contract, Utilities Industry, Organizational Psychology, Betriebswirtschaftslehre

  • Fachdisziplin
    Unternehmensführung & Organisation
  • Schriftenreihe
    Strategisches Management
  • ISSN
    1617-7762
  • Band
    98

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