Knowledge retention and personnel mobility: The nondisruptive effects of inflows of experience

Organization Science

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Madsen, Tammy L ^a   Mosakowski, Elaine ^b   Zaheer, Srilata ^c  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Employee and Personnel Mobility; Knowledge Transfer; Learning; Retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038274024     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.14.2.173.14997     Document Type: Article

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