... as a strategy to enhance knowledge transfer from one organization to another. Design/methodology/approach To study the impact of national culture on production process moves, the authors develop and employ a team-based behavioral experiment within and between an individualist society (the United States...

... and how this phenomenon is influenced by tacit knowledge transfer through observation and imitation. The results prove the existence of spillover learning between consecutive ramp-ups. Moreover, they provide evidence how tacit knowledge transfer through observation and imitation enhances learning...

... context by using an exact, quantifiable measure of country-level economic development, thereby offering a more refined approach to this subject than previous studies. Knowledge transfer Operational performance Manufacturing networks Subsidiary Country context Internal integration Many...

... to facilitate such processes. Practical implications – The paper identifies four issues that management faces in the dispatching context when relocating manufacturing facilities. Originality/value – The paper gives new insights to a limited literature of shop floor knowledge transfer when relocating...

... review that supports the further development of the field. Knowledge transfer Literature review Process improvement Global operations management Improvement program Production system Many multinational corporations (MNCs) have strategically used the steeply increasing globalisation...

...Benn Lawson; Antony Potter Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors which determine the degree of knowledge transfer in inter‐firm new product development (NPD) projects. The authors test a theoretical model exploring how inter‐firm knowledge transfer is enabled or hindered...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Human resource management Information transfer Knowledge transfer Manufacturing industries Sri Lanka Preliminary investigations by the authors led to identify that all these firms were involved in technology transfers either...