Knowledge sharing. Faraj and Sproull’s (2000) four-item scale, developed in a field study of software project teams, measures individual perceptions of the extent of knowledge sharing by team members. A sample item from the scale is, “Managers in our team share their special knowledge and expertise with one another.” In addition, we also used the three-item information sharing scale developed by Durham (1997). A sample item from this scale is, “Managers in our team share lot of information with one another.” A CFA of the seven items from the two scales indicated an acceptable level of fit for a one-factor model ( 2 44.94, df 12, p .01; NNFI .98, CFI .99, RMSEA .08). Accordingly, we averaged the score on all seven items to compute this variable. Cronbach’s alpha for the combined scale was .94.