Title: Exploring the impacts of mobile devices usage on individual's creativity: a cross-cultural perspective

Authors: Shangui Hu; Fengle Ji; Hefu Liu; Maomao Chi

Addresses: College of Business Administration, Ningbo University of Finance and Economics, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315175, China; School of Business, Anhui University of Technology, Ma'anshan, Anhui, 243000, China ' School of Business, Anhui University of Technology, Ma'anshan, Anhui, 243000, China ' School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China ' School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430078, China

Abstract: The proliferation of mobile devices facilitates expatriates' international mobility to meet up with success of individuals, organisations and industries. Notwithstanding, how mobile device usage contributes to international expatriates' creativity still lacks sufficient research. The current research explicates the underlying mechanism whereby mobile device usage exerts effects on international expatriates' creativity. The research findings indicate that two aspects of mobile device usage both serve to positively influence expatriates' creativity through the conduits of expatriates' intention to share implicit and explicit knowledge respectively. Regarded as an influential boundary condition in foreign environments characterised with cultural complexity and novelty, cultural distance was found to attenuate the positive effects of mobile devices usage on expatriates' intention to share knowledge. Implications and future research avenues are also discussed in the research.

Keywords: mobile devices usage; expatriate's creativity; intention to share knowledge; cultural distance; cross-cultural perspective.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2023.134031

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2023 Vol.22 No.4, pp.449 - 475

Received: 29 Sep 2021
Accepted: 19 Jan 2022
Published online: 10 Oct 2023 *

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