Impacts of knowledge sourcing on employee innovation: the moderating effect of information transparency

Tong Che is based at Dongwu Business School, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. He is an Assistant Professor of Electronic Commerce at Dongwu Business School, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. His research interests include knowledge management and knowledge innovation and consumer behavior in e-commerce. His work has appeared in Information & Management, Electronic Commerce Research, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems and Americans Conference on Information Systems.

Zijing Wu is based at Soochow University, Suzhou, China. She is an Undergraduate Student in Dongwu Business School, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. Her research interests include knowledge management and innovation.

Yaoyu Wang is Associate Professor at Dongwu Business School, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. He received the PhD degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China. He is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering with Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. He has published more than 20 papers in journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, the International Journal of Production Research, the Journal of the Operational Research Society and Computers and Industrial Engineering. His research interests include operations and supply chain management and decision analysis.

Rui Yang is based at Soochow University, Suzhou, China. He is an Associate Professor of Economics at Dongwu Business School, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. His research interests include innovation management and social network and firm innovation and industrial development. His work has appeared in Transportation Policy and Kybernetika.