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The prevalence of mobile device usage is changing the main domains of the current world. In light of increasing international expatriation to meet the demands of overseas success, more empirical research should be conducted to investigate the under-studied usage of mobile device in cross-cultural contexts. The current research was designed to explore relationships among mobile device usage, intention to share knowledge, individual creativity and cultural distance. We identified that the impacts of informational and socializing usage of mobile device contribute to individual’s intention to share knowledge, thereby positively influencing individual’s creativity. However, cultural distance was identified as a boundary condition impairing the positive effects of mobile device usage on individual’s intention to share knowledge in cross-cultural environment. The implications and limitations of this research are also discussed.
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The research was financially supported by Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation under Grant 1908085MG238 and 2019’ National Education Sciences Planning Project of China under Grant BBA190019.
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Hu, S., Liu, H., Wang, G. (2020). How Does Mobile Devices Usage Contribute to Individual’s Creativity in Cross-Cultural Settings?. In: Salvendy, G., Wei, J. (eds) Design, Operation and Evaluation of Mobile Communications. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12216. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50350-5_3
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