and MI. The equations indicate that the lower the HI or MI level,Рthe steeper the slope. This suggests that HI and MI have negative moderating effectsРon TA’s contribution to KM, thus suggesting that the stronger hierarchical,Рgoal-oriented petitive the culture, the weaker the positive relationship betweenРtransactional leadership behaviors and KM practices.РDiscussionРThe results of this study suggest that both transformational and transactionalРleadership are positively related to KM practices. These results received support fromРPolitis’s (2001) and Crawford’s (2005) recent contentions that the aforesaid leadershipРbehaviors are positively related to knowledge acquisition attributes and KM inventory.РThe obtained results of this study, however, further reveal that charismatic leadership