Abstract:

As firms increasingly share processes across globally distributed networks, the transfer of knowledge between network participants continue to pose many challenges. The paper adopts a process perspective on knowledge and the more recent view of knowledge transfer as involving both communication by a source and learning and application by a recipient. It reviews the existing literature on knowledge transfer, strategic management, information systems and interfirm networks and develops a model of knowledge transfer in interorganizational networks by integrating
enablers/inhibitors at the individual, organizational and network levels.