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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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State of the Art
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Data Collection and Results
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Critical Discussion
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About this book
Current corporate structures based on internationalisation and decentralisation are opposed to the nature of the most important resource: knowledge. The acquisition and exchange of (tacit) knowledge relies on interpersonal interactions and is thus time- and place-dependent. Given that the combination of heterogeneous knowledge stocks furthers innovation, organisations develop strategies to ensure the transfer of knowledge. To enable intra-organisational knowledge flows spatial mobility at the workplace affects a wide range of employees.
The study examines in which ways spatially mobile employees, i.e. expatriates, contribute to those knowledge flows. The study of ego networks reveals not only social dynamics of knowledge transfer, but the geographical framework allows to discuss knowledge flows from a spatial perspective. On the one hand, the empirical results confirm their knowledge transfer function. On the other hand, the relational geographical perspective reveals that expatriates do not represent a homogeneous group, but their roles in the knowledge transfer process, the geographical reach of their networks and their knowledge resources depend on job-, knowledge-, individual- and space-related factors.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowledge Transfers over Geographical Distance in Organisations
Book Subtitle: The Role of Spatial Mobility and Business Networks
Authors: Vanessa Rebecca Hünnemeyer
Series Title: Perspektiven der Humangeographie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31018-9
Publisher: Springer Spektrum Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-31017-2Published: 31 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-31018-9Published: 30 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-3381
Series E-ISSN: 2524-339X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 302
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Human Geography