...Peder Veng Søberg; Brian Vejrum Wæhrens Purpose This paper aims to explore the effect of subsidiary autonomy on knowledge transfers during captive offshoring to emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach Five longitudinal cases of captive R&D and manufacturing offshoring to emerging...

... challenge. However, discussions on knowledge transfer are derived predominantly from a cognitive perspective and normally focus on the organizational level and are rarely linked with outsourcing. Thus, from the perspective of operations management, the purpose of this paper is to explore how to transfer...

... for assessing knowledge of various task situations and a method for transfer of non‐normal task situations. Erik S. Madsen can be contacted at: erikskov@production.aau.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Knowledge transfer Shop floor Tacit knowledge Production processes...