Document Type : Case Study
Authors
School of Marketing Management, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao 125105, China
Abstract
The paper aims to study the relationship between organizational commitment and knowledge sharing; organizational commitment and employee creativity; knowledge sharing and employee creativity; and the knowledge sharing plays as mediator role. Simple sizes of 342 respondents from 17 four and five star hotels were collected in Cambodia. In order to achieve the purposes of this study and test the hypotheses, so that structural equation model (SEM) was employed. Results revealed that organizational commitment have influence on knowledge sharing and employee creativity, respectively; knowledge sharing has influence on employee creativity; and knowledge sharing also plays as partially mediated between organizational commitment and employee creativity. The finding is to fulfill the gap of literature and empirical study.
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