Kitchen confidential? Norms for the use of transferred knowledge in gourmet cuisine
通过一项涉及500多名意大利厨师的实地实验，研究知识使用规范如何影响知识持有者与同行分享知识的意愿，发现规范虽重要但无法完全替代其他保护私人知识的手段。
When will knowledge holders share their knowledge with peers? Several studies suggest that norms of knowledge disclosure encourage knowledge transfer. More recently, scholars have hypothesized that norms of knowledge use may indirectly promote it. In this article, we synthesize a theoretical framework of the effect of norms of knowledge use and test its predictions by means of a field experiment involving more than 500 Italian chefs. For the literature on knowledge transfer, we confirm the importance of norms, but we also show that they are not complete substitutes for other means of protecting private knowledge. For the literature on social norms, we provide evidence of how actors assess others' propensity to conform and how this influences the intention to participate in the norm‐regulated exchange . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.