Knowledge hiding

An interesting article about knowldge hiding. It is related to teaching in higher education, and as well as relevant to teaching IL in HE I think it is also useful to reflect on this behaviour in other contexts.
Omotayo, F. O., & Akintibubo, A. O. (2024). Knowledge hiding in the academia: Individual and social factors predicting knowledge hiding behaviour of undergraduates of a Nigerian university. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 56(1), 145-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006221133564 "The results show that the individual factors (distrust and psychological ownership), as well as the social factors (negative or lack of mutual reciprocity, lack of social interaction and lack of social identification), predicted the KHB of the students. The study concluded that the undergraduates engaged in knowledge hiding in so many ways and for many reasons. The individual factors of the students, as well as the social factors surrounding them, predicted their KHB. " They categorise strategies in three ways: Playing dumb (e.g. "During knowledge sharing sessions in class, I pretend I do not know the question even though I do", Evasive hiding (e.g. "I always agree to share my knowledge but never really intend to") and Rationalised hiding (e.g. "When ask about something, I explain that I would like to tell him/her but was not supposed to.")
This is a priced article, I'm afraid. An open access article that reviews the literature on knowledge hoarding and hiding is this one.
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