Revisiting knowledge transfer: Effects of knowledge characteristics on organizational effort for knowledge transfer

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 8155-8160

  Kang, Jina ^a   Rhee, Mooweon ^b   Kang, Ki H ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficulty; Importance; Knowledge characteristics; Knowledge transfer; Tacitness

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DIFFICULTY; IMPORTANCE; KNOWLEDGE CHARACTERISTICS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; TACITNESS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77957826979     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.05.072     Document Type: Article

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