Employee creativity formation: The roles of knowledge seeking, knowledge contributing and flow experience in Web 2.0 virtual communities

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Highlights：

• Building on self-perception theory, we develop a research model.

• Data collected from 232 users of Web 2.0 applications were used to test the model.

• Both knowledge seeking and knowledge contributing can lead to creativity at work.

• Flow plays a lubricating role in the formation of employee creativity.

• Our causal direction analysis supports the research model we developed in this study.

摘要

•Building on self-perception theory, we develop a research model.•Data collected from 232 users of Web 2.0 applications were used to test the model.•Both knowledge seeking and knowledge contributing can lead to creativity at work.•Flow plays a lubricating role in the formation of employee creativity.•Our causal direction analysis supports the research model we developed in this study.

论文关键词：Knowledge seeking,Knowledge contributing,Flow,Creativity,Web 2.0 virtual communities

论文评审过程：Available online 25 April 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.03.007