The Effect of Self-Monitoring on Trust During the Knowledge Sharing Process in Interorganizational Relationships

Abstract

Each single network sustains in its own structure, an implicit accumulation of knowledge often referred to as social capital. Agents provide the sharing of knowledge between different networks by carrying one's implicit knowlegde to the other. In the existing literature, factors effecting the formation of trust are debated, excluding how agents exploit personal charactersitics such as self-monitoring, in the formation of trust in their relationships. Self-monitoring is defined as the ability to control the behaviors predicting oneself. As it is a personal characteristic contemplated to be effective in the creation of trustfullness perception by others, in this study we will examine the effect of self monitoring in the formation of trust during the process of implicit knowledge sharing.