Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. WINTER, 1996, Pages 27-43

  Szulanski, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Best practice transfer; Internal stickiness; Knowledge transfer; Knowledgement management; Rent appropriation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041751098     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.4250171105     Document Type: Article

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