Study on Knowledge Sharing Incentive within Project Team Based on Horizontal Fairness Preference

doi:10.12005/orms.2015.0219

Abstract

Abstract: Most actual researches on knowledge sharing incentive are based on the rational economic people assumption. However, such an assumption has its limitation on real economic activities. This paper integrates individual incentive and workgroup incentive that used to be separate. The use of game model and the consideration of horizontal fairness preferences are constructed to analyze the knowledge sharing incentive model within project team. Through the model testing and data simulation, conclusions are as follow: under the equilibrium state of individual incentive and workgroup incentive, the individual incentive and workgroup incentive are complementary. In low(high)cost of knowledge sharing risk, individual incentive and horizontal fairness preference are negative correlation(an inverted U-shaped); workgroup incentive and horizontal fairness preference are positive correlation(U-shaped).

Key words: management science, knowledge sharing incentive, fairness preference theory, project team

摘要： 现有知识共享激励研究大都建立在理性经济人假设基础上,而在现实经济活动中,这一假设存在较大局限性。本文将传统个体激励和团队激励相分离的激励模式转化为整合激励模式,运用博弈模型构建了基于横向公平偏好的知识共享激励模型,并对模型进行检验与数据模拟,结果表明:项目团队成员知识共享个体激励和团队激励均衡状态下,个体激励和团队激励对成员的知识共享努力水平具有互补性。知识共享风险成本较低(高)情形下,个体激励与横向公平偏好负相关(呈倒U型关系),团队激励与横向公平偏好正相关(呈U型关系)。

关键词: 管理科学, 知识共享激励, 公平偏好理论, 项目团队

CLC Number:

SHI Jian-gang, LIN Ling-na, TANG Dai-zhong. Study on Knowledge Sharing Incentive within Project Team Based on Horizontal Fairness Preference[J]. Operations Research and Management Science, 2015, 24(6): 242-250.

施建刚, 林陵娜, 唐代中. 考虑横向公平偏好的项目团队成员知识共享激励研究[J]. 运筹与管理, 2015, 24(6): 242-250.

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