Inter- and Intra-organizational knowledge transfer: a meta analytic review and assessment of its antecedents and consequences
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...We think that there is potential to explore further the distinct phases in a knowledge transfer process, since, as Van Wijk et al. (2008) suggest, there is a gap in the literature here....
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...Van Wijk et al. (2008) find that cultural distance particularly hinders knowledge transfer in terms of intraorganizational knowledge transfer, and they recommend that more research is needed...
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...Van Wijk et al. (2008) identify that in prior research studies, ambiguity of knowledge has a significant, but negative, impact on knowledge transfer....
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...Van Wijk et al. (2008) identify that organizational characteristics such as size and absorptive capacity positively impact knowledge transfer....
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...In addition, none of the papers, except for Van Wijk et al. (2008), identify the importance of the relatedness of the knowledge between the donor and the recipient....
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...This effect size may be labelled medium (cf. Cohen, 1988), which suggests that the more tacit, specific, and complex the underlying knowledge, the less easily it can be transferred....
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...Evidently, this limited number of studies impacts observed variance and influences the effect sizes we found (Cohen, 1988)....
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...Larger firms or organizational units may not only have more resources to devote to knowledge transfer (Gupta and Govindarajan, 2000), but may also have more diverse knowledge resources that enable absorption of new knowledge (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990)....
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...Originally introduced by Cohen and Levinthal (1990), absorptive capacity has emerged as one of the most prominent themes in the literature on organizational knowledge transfer....
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...Absorptive capacity refers to the ability to recognize, assimilate and apply new external knowledge (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990; Lane et al., 2006; Zahra and George, 2002)....
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...In addition, the accumulation of knowledge not only permits more efficient utilization of related knowledge but also enables organizations to better understand and evaluate the nature and commercial potential of technological advances (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990)....
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...Our review clearly demonstrates that prior experience and related knowledge contributes to transferring knowledge both between and within organizations (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990)....
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...In a similar way, tie strength and trust may ultimately limit access to divergent perspectives and to alternative ways of doing things (Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998)....
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...The social context can be divided and evaluated along three main dimensions: the structural, relational and cognitive dimension (Inkpen and Tsang, 2005; Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998)....
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...The third dimension of social capital, the cognitive dimension, refers to the resources within relationships that provide shared representations, interpretations, and systems of meaning (Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998)....
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...Firms need to transfer and acquire new knowledge as they seek to develop new applications and survive (Henderson and Cockburn, 1994; Kogut and Zander, 1992)....
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...© Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008 Our study also corroborates research showing that firms and units may equally improve their innovative capacity by leveraging the skills of others through the transfer of knowledge (Kogut and Zander, 1992)....
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...Organizational knowledge transfer depends © Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008 on how easily the underlying knowledge sources can be communicated, interpreted, and absorbed (Kogut and Zander, 1992)....
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