The persistence and transfer of learning in industrial settings
Management Science
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining, and Transferring Knowledge
Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining, and Transferring Knowledge
Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation
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Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
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Organization Science
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Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
A business process context for Knowledge Management
Decision Support Systems
Knowledge networking to support medical new product development
Decision Support Systems
Integrating intra-firm and inter-firm knowledge diffusion into the knowledge diffusion model
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Facilitating experience reuse among software project managers
Information Sciences: an International Journal
The knowledge diffusion model associated with innovative knowledge
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Factors affecting shapers of organizational wikis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
The case study of knowledge transfer through computers-making a subject home page
IMCAS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Instrumentation, measurement, circuits and systems
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge
Organization Science
Inter-organisational knowledge transfer and computer mediated social networking
ICCMSN'08 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computer-Mediated Social Networking
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Organization Science
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Organization Science
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Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
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This paper examines how knowledge is integrated in complex technology and product development settings. By framing the task of knowledge integration as a cycle, we highlight the inability of current knowledge transfer theories to explain the consequences that arise from the path-dependent nature of knowledge. We compare the complexity of this knowledge integration task to previous efforts in terms of its novelty and the organizational properties of specialization and dependence that are required. Drawing on evidence from two empirical studies, we outline three stages of the "knowledge transformation cycle," which addresses the complexity of this integration task. We conclude with the implications of this knowledge transformation cycle on our understanding of knowledge management and organizational learning.