Purpose

Because of its impact on organisational growth, innovation and employee performance, knowledge hiding (KH) as a construct has gained increased attention from scholars and practitioners in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of the existing literature on KH and take the stock of the current literature, identify research streams and offer recommendations on areas where KH may be investigated further.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, the authors used systematic review methods to investigate the current state of KH research, and using thematic coding, the authors identified the current research streams and offer directions for future research.

Findings

The review of literature identified geographic representation of KH research, methodological approaches to explore KH and the prominent theories adopted to investigate KH, and through research synthesis, the antecedents and moderators/mediators of KH were identified. Subsequently, the authors also found seven research streams where KH has been predominantly studied. Finally, the authors provide suggestions of where the future research in KH might be headed.

Originality/value

This paper is one of the few to offer systematic review of KH literature and identify unexplored areas to be investigated in future research – which is the integral part of knowledge management process.

中文翻译：

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知识隐藏——系统回顾和研究议程

目的

由于其对组织成长、创新和员工绩效的影响，知识隐藏（KH）作为一种结构近年来越来越受到学者和实践者的关注。本文的目的是对现有关于 KH 的文献进行系统回顾，并对当前文献进行盘点，确定研究流并就可以进一步研究 KH 的领域提供建议。

设计/方法/方法

在本研究中，作者使用系统评价方法调查 KH 研究的现状，并使用主题编码，确定当前的研究流并为未来的研究提供方向。

发现

文献综述确定了 KH 研究的地理代表性、探索 KH 的方法论和研究 KH 所采用的突出理论，并通过研究综合确定了 KH 的前因和调节者/中介者。随后，作者还发现了七个主要研究 KH 的研究流。最后，作者提供了关于 KH 未来研究方向的建议。

原创性/价值

这篇论文是为数不多的对 KH 文献进行系统回顾并确定未来研究中需要调查的未探索领域的论文之一——这是知识管理过程的组成部分。