Dynamic Synergies: Exploring Knowledge Exchange, Innovation, Creative Self-Efficacy, and Project Success in Public and Private Sector Organizations of Twin Cities, Pakistan

Abstract

Through knowledge sharing, a firm is able to improve intelligence and decisions made since it allows for the sharing of information, skills, and expertise by employees. Since project success and innovation are essential for the organizational development and competitive advantage, respectively, creative self-efficacy, which is the confidence in one’s ability to create solutions, impacts project success and innovation. The study aim to explore the relationships knowledge sharing, Project success, Innovation, and creative self-efficacy among the employee of public and private sector organizations of the twin city of Pakistan. This study adopted a cross-sectional research with sample size of 300 participants drawn from the both the public and the private sector organizations from twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Information was gathered by structured questionnaires that were adopted from standardized indexes. Correlations and mediation test were also performed to establish the relationship between knowledge sharing and project success, innovation and creative self-efficacy. The study findings show that there are positive relationships between knowledge sharing and the level of project success, level of innovation, and level of creative self-efficacy in all the sectors and at all the locations which was researched. This paper establishes that knowledge sharing has a positive impact on project success and innovation, where creative self-efficacy moderates the effects. These studies assert that knowledge sharing is vital for developing innovation and improving the organizational performances in the GO and NGO sectors. Emphasizing knowledge sharing as an organizational value can pave the way to the envisioned organizational success implying further improvement in project performance. It is recommended that organizations should support activities that foster communication and cooperation in the framework of knowledge sharing.