Wading and Jumping into a New Job-Exploring Dynamics of Knowledge Flow for Systems Engineers.
Engineering companies are growing increasingly concerned with identifying ways to effectively transfer knowledge, both to new employees and between employees who collaborate to develop new products. Effective knowledge capture is difficult in research and development contexts where design knowledge...
| Publicado en: | Human Organization Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 194 - 206 |
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Society for Applied Anthropology
Summer 2009
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