Structural knowledge: How executive experience with structural composition affects intrafirm mobility and unit reconfiguration

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 681-709

  Karim, Samina ^a   Williams, Charles ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

executive mobility; human capital theory; intraorganizational mobility; knowledge transfer; organizational structure; recombination

Indexed keywords

CORE INTERNAL; HUMAN CAPITALS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; KNOWLEDGE-BASED VIEWS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; RECOMBINATION; STRUCTURAL COMPOSITION; STRUCTURAL KNOWLEDGE;

INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC POLICY;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84859713232     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.1967     Document Type: Article

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