Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing How Much Do Colleagues Matter
Series: . 2 ; 11Publication details: 2018-07-19Description: 19Subject(s): In: The Great Lakes HeraldSummary: "Knowledge Transfer between workers in an organization is challenging to manage. Workers learn about innovations from their colleagues and from other workers outside the firm's organisational boundary, but behavioural factors may favour one source of learning over the other. We test our proposed model in the context of physicians prescription of a new technology using actual prescription data. We find that on average, physicians learn about the technology from their internal colleagues more than from their external rivals. However, both physicians with the greatest cumulative knowledge of the new technology and those with the least show the opposite pattern, i.e. they are influenced less by their internal colleagues than by external rivals."| Item type | Current library | Status | Barcode | |
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| Article | St. Francis Institute of Management and Research | Available | AR0738 |
"Knowledge Transfer between workers in an organization is challenging to manage. Workers learn about innovations from their colleagues and from other workers outside the firm's organisational boundary, but behavioural factors may favour one source of learning over the other. We test our proposed model in the context of physicians prescription of a new technology using actual prescription data. We find that on average, physicians learn about the technology from their internal colleagues more than from their external rivals. However, both physicians with the greatest cumulative knowledge of the new technology and those with the least show the opposite pattern, i.e. they are influenced less by their internal colleagues than by external rivals."
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