A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about knowledge management. Szulanski studied 122 bestpractice transfers in eight companies and concluded. Can organizational knowledge capabilities affect knowledge. Theoretical approaches to ebook research, libellarium, ix, 1. Tacit knowledge sharing in organizational knowledge. A primary cause of occupational accidents is onsite workers not having proper or even adequate safety knowledge and awareness, leading to them failing to employ safety measures, equipment, or behavior. Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm proposed that knowledge transfer within a firm is inhibited by factors other than a lack of incentive. The paper discusses impediments to knowledge transfer within this context, presents findings from the a posteriori application of szulanski s model to the survey responses, and suggests future. A source book of gestalt psychology, humanities press. This study tries to investigate the origins of knowledge stickiness and the. Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm proposed that knowledge transfer within a firm is inhibited by factors other. Sticky knowledge reveals that the transfer of practices is a complex phenomenon, and demonstrates the range of barriers to transferring best practices within the firm. For this purpose, a standard knowledge production function kpf approach was extended by the application of spatial. Our analysis started from the construction of the alternative structures of the spatial weight matrices.
Written in a brief and accessible format, gabriel szulanski defines the popular concept of stickiness and its operationalization, providing a roadmap for understanding and. Stickiness and the adaptation of organizational practices in cross. Organizational behavior and human decision processes 821. Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm winter special edition. Lexington departure of actual cost from expected cost on books, lexington, ma. Embedding knowledge transfer in digital citizen engagement in. These matrices were based on technological and institutional. Gabriels research focuses on knowledge transfer and the making of strategy.
Discover the latest buzzworthy books, from mysteries and romance to humor and nonfiction. Impediments to the transfer of best practices within the firm. This essay on cost information for decision making was written and. A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book. Gabriel szulanski is a professor of strategy and the chair of the strategy area at insead. That is not entirely true, argues szulankski in a paper titled exploring internal stickiness. Szulanski studied 122 bestpractice transfers in eight. Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm gabriel szulanski the wharton school, university of pennsylvania, philadelphia, pennsylvania, u.
Impediments to interfirm transfer of best practice in an. Like a plant, a transfer that unfolds fully in one 32 g. Collaboration networks, structural holes, and innovation. Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm by gabriel szulanski summary. The transfer of knowledge is likely to experience what szulanski refers to as internal stickiness, which is based on the characteristics of knowledge transferred, the source of the knowledge, recipients of the. After a more general introduction in chapter 1, szulanski starts chapter 2 by arguing that the transfer of knowledge. A crosssectional analysis of primary data collected through a twostep survey of 122 transfers of organizational practices within eight firms illustrates the applicability of the model and.
Antecedents of absorptive capacity in knowledgetransfer. A primary cause of occupational accidents is onsite workers not having proper or even adequate safety knowledge and awareness, leading to them failing to employ safety measures, equipment, or behavior to protect themselves. This study provides a theoretical framework illustrating how the internal social structure of the organization can mediate the relationship between highperformance work systems hpws and organiza. Knowledge barriers lack of absorptive capacity, causal ambiguity, and an arduous relationship contribute to the stickiness of internal knowledge transfer. Knowledge barriers lack of absorptive capacity, causal ambiguity, and an arduous relationship contribute to the stickiness of internal. Articles management of intangible corporate assets smeal. Nov 19, 2004 gabriel was the star of the conference. This article glosses over the major internal issues but does give insight on the compromises that a complex organization must make in trying to create spinouts. Having recognized that knowledge assets are rapidly. The stickers can be placed next to their appropriate word labels, and then moved to anywhere the reader sees fit. The purpose of this paper is to present a critical analysis of the well known knowledge dynamics model elaborated by ikujiro nonaka and his coworkers.
The influence of knowledge stickiness on knowledge transfer. Pdf stickiness and the adaptation of crossborder knowledge. May 17, 2015 szulanski g 1996 exploring internal stickiness. Strategic management journal, 17special issue, 2743. The replication perspective on internal stickiness that we develop in this paper highlights, like the. Aug 27, 2010 the purpose of this paper is to present a critical analysis of the well known knowledge dynamics model elaborated by ikujiro nonaka and his coworkers. Knowledge retention from older and retiring workers. Exploring internal stickiness impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm gabriel szulanski.
Highperformance work systems and organizational performance. A critical analysis of nonakas model of knowledge dynamics by. Middle managers role in transferring personcentered. Feb 22, 2017 this one could be interesting for you. Danny p wallace this book links current and historical works to the development of knowledge management across domains and disciplines to give students and scholars a deeper appreciation of the origins of km and a. Measures of stickiness are developed for each stage of the transfer to explore the predictive power of different factors at different stages of the process. This essay on cost information for decision making was written and submitted by your fellow student. Knowledge retention from older and retiring workers can also be viewed as an element of succession planning beazley et al. Further analyses were conducted to explore the stability of the coefficients. An empirical investigation of the barriers to transfer best practices inside the firm, academy of management journal, pp. Danny p wallace this book links current and historical works to the development of knowledge. Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm g. Sticky knowledge by gabriel szulanski, 9780761961437, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The emerging field of knowledge management wharton magazine.
I science described 61 judged to be related either to dissemination, implementation, or both. Sustainability free fulltext exploring onsite safety. A critical analysis of nonakas model of knowledge dynamics. Cost information for decision making 2379 words essay example. Szulanski, gabriel, rossella cappetta, and robert j. Written in a brief and accessible format, gabriel szulanski. The article deals with the issue of knowledge spillovers in the european regions. For this purpose, a standard knowledge production function kpf approach was extended by the application of spatial econometrics methods. Replication, a familiar phenomenon sometimes referred to as the mcdonalds approach, entails the creation and operation of a large number of similar outlets that deliver a product or perform a ser. The complexity of construction projects and changes in organizational personnel complicate the safety knowledge transfer process. Szulanski s doctoral dissertation exploring internal stickiness. A theoretical framework for development of a customer knowledge management system for academic libraries.
Organizational stickiness regarding the transfer of best practices is not so mucha function of motivation on the hands of the recipients, but rather lack of ac, causal ambiguity and poor. Strategic management journal, 17winter special issue. Exploring internal stickiness 29 lished and the transferred practice is often. Feb 24, 2003 sticky knowledge by gabriel szulanski, 9780761961437, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
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