... manager’s knowledge is transferred to the client organization while operating from a liminal position. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents an interview-based multiple case study of six interim assignments where knowledge transfer is considered a social and context-dependent process...

...Mayra Liuviana Vega Chica; Luis Ángel Valle Lituma Purpose This study aims to explore the mediating role of the motivation for learning in knowledge acquisition and knowledge transfer in students of higher education programs in business and management. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative...

...Fredrik Sunnemark; Wilma Lundqvist Westin; Tamy Al Saad; Per Assmo Purpose This study aims to explore barriers and facilitators for knowledge transfer and learning processes by examining a cross-departmental collaborative project in the municipal organization. It is based on a R&D...

...Paulo Renato de Sousa; José Márcio de Castro; Claudia Fabiana Gohr; Marcelo Werneck Barbosa Purpose This study aims to assess suppliers’ learning from knowledge transfers with a global truck manufacturer, considering both source and supplier capacity, and the cultural proximity between the parties...

... as a wide range of external and internal factors form different learning dynamics within organizations (Dodgson, 1993), such as strategy, structure (Snow & Miles, 1983), resource, communication, reward and social interaction (Taylor, Templeton, & Baker, 2010). Nonetheless, knowledge transfer...

.... Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior staff in the main public and private HEIs in Mauritius. Questions focused on knowledge management, including relevant barriers and enabling factors to knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer...

... organizational performance. Findings For one of these initiatives, managers engaged in knowledge transformation that enabled managers and academics to learn and collaborate across group boundaries. For the other initiative, managers relied on knowledge transfer practices, which failed to establish productive...

...Arne Lindseth Bygdås Purpose – The literature on knowledge transfer is dominated by a one-way transmission model logic where knowledge is captured and transferred from one source to another, assuming the source and receiver resemble each other and have some common knowledge. The social learning...

...Anna Sankowska Purpose This study seeks to provide empirical evidence of relationships between organizational trust, knowledge transfer, creation and innovativeness at the firm level. It aims to hypothesize a mediational model implying that organizational trust is related to knowledge transfer...

...Fang Chen; Hari Bapuji; Bruno Dyck; Xiaoyun Wang Purpose Although knowledge transfer is generally conceived as a two‐way process in which knowledge is transferred to and from the knowledge source, research has tended to focus on the first part of the process and neglect the second part. This study...

... part. The paper aims to begin to fill this gap. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Industrial estates Globalization Knowledge transfer Change management Italy Can local clusters or industrial districts survive globalization? This article deals with the problem from...

...Ajith Kumar; L.S. Ganesh Purpose This paper aims to examine how knowledge transfer between individuals influences performance in product development (PD) organizations and whether this influence is contingent to the degree of novelty in the PD work. Design/methodology/approach A set...

... least squares are the methodology employed to analyze the data. Findings The study highlights how using teams, employing a collaborative culture, and possessing capacity after accounting for the control variables affected the knowledge transfer process and provides some insights into ways in which...

... This study, on the one hand, might assist to further develop theories of knowledge transfer, such as Argote's et al. integrative knowledge management framework. On the other hand, it complements Szulanski's research since he did not explore the approach used during the implementation process...

... are being performed and forgetting takes place during dormant times between the successive implementations. The log‐linear model was adapted, with both learning and forgetting rates being a function of the doubling or tripling of output. Forgetting is inhibited through the use of knowledge transfer tools...

... and the China centre. These forms of HR structure have also provided an essential foundation for wide collaboration between subsidiaries, and further for creating a knowledge‐sharing culture to facilitate HR knowledge transfer. Research limitations/implications The findings on HR structure and the transfer...

...Peter A.C. Smith; Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse knowledge transfers in transnational corporations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a conceptual framework for the analysis of knowledge flow transfers in transnationals. Based...

...Christopher Manu; Derek H.T. Walker Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate how lessons learned from a case study of a construction project undertaken in the Pacific Islands relates to the interaction between social capital and knowledge transfer. The paper is reflective in nature...

...Leyland M. Lucas Purpose This paper aims to look at the issue of culture's role in knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs). Studies of MNCs have hinted at the importance of culture to the performance of subsidiaries. Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions of power distance...

...Leyland M. Lucas; dt ogilvie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the question ”given all that we know about knowledge transfer in organizations, why do problems persist?” This is achieved by examining the challenges confronting organizations in developing an effective knowledge...