Thinning Knowledge: An Interpretive Field Study of Knowledge-Sharing Practices of Firms in Three Multinational Contexts
Knowledge is often tacit and "sticky", i.e. highly context-specific and therefore costly to transfer to a different setting. This paper examines the methods used by firms to facilitate cross-site knowledge sharing by "thinning" knowledge, that is, by stripping knowledge of its co...
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| Format: | Others |
| Language: | en |
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Sage
2010
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| Online Access: | http://epub.wu.ac.at/3860/1/KM_JOMI7_main_text.pdf http://epub.wu.ac.at/3860/2/KM_JOMI7_Tables_and_Figures.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1056492610370366 |