Absorptive and disseminative capacity: Knowledge transfer in intra-organization networks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-38

  Mu, Jifeng ^a,c   Tang, Fangcheng ^b   MacLachlan, Douglas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Disseminative capacity; Intra organization networks; Knowledge transfer

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVE CAPABILITY; ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; CAPACITY-OF-NETWORK; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DISSEMINATIVE CAPACITY; INTRA-ORGANIZATION NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE FLOW; KNOWLEDGE STATE; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; ORGANIZATION NETWORKS;

COMPETITION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 70349469291     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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