This paper followed the procedure suggested by Baron and
Kenny (1986), Gelfand, Mensinger, and Tenhave (2009) and Ke,
Liu, Wei, Gu, and Chen (2009) and tested the mediating effects
of the model, as shown in Table 6. The direct links between relational
benefits and both connectedness and dysfunctional conflict,
between relational proclivity and information sharing, between
power symmetry and information sharing, and between connectedness
and information sharing were significant and thus satisfied
the first condition for mediating effect. The link between connectedness
and information sharing was not significant. The second
condition for mediating effect was thus not satisfied; therefore,
dysfunctional conflict did not mediate the relationship between
connectedness and information sharing. In contrast, the links
between relational benefits and both relational proclivity and
power symmetry, between relational proclivity and connectedness,