... organizations need to transfer intractably tacit knowledge. A nepotistic approach should thus be employed only if the benefit of sharing intractably tacit knowledge exceed the cost of nepotism. Organizations should enhance the benefit by ensuring effective knowledge transfer and reduce the cost by mitigating...

... to make employment decisions based on the principle of utility and equal treatment. Yet, managers in developing countries sometimes accept or even codify nepotism as part of formal organizational procedures. Such favoritism is endorsed because its congruence with the deep-rooted, pre-industrial moral...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Anthropology Management Nepotism Organization research Peasant Article Type: Abstracts From: Development and Learning in Organizations, Volume 27, Issue 1 Kragh S.U . International Journal of Cross Cultural...