Menon, Tanya; Thompson, Leigh; Choi, Hoon-Seok - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 8, pp. 1129-1144
kinds of threats. Specifically, using knowledge from an internal rival is difficult because it threatens the self and its … rivals pose a lower threat to personal status, so people are more willing to use their knowledge. We conducted three studies …. Study 1 showed that internal and external rivalry involved opposite relationships between threat and knowledge valuation …