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Everything about Knowledge transfer
Sharing knowledge for problem solving
Knowledge transfer is the transfer of facts or practical skills from one entity to another. The specific profile of transfer processes that are activated for a given situation depends on the type of knowledge to be transferred, how it is represented, and the processing demands of the transfer task. From this perspective, knowledge transfer in humans encompasses expertise from different disciplines, including psychology, cognitive anthropology, anthropology of knowledge, communication studies, and media ecology. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Knowledge transferA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Mechanisms and Components of Knowledge Transfer: The Virtual Special Issue on Knowledge Transfer Within OrganizationsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research projectThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization SubunitsCited 4,124 times
- Go sideways: Organizational learningA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Knowledge sharingA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits
Knowledge transfer upon repatriation
Tacit knowledge transfer and the knowledge disconnect
Managing knowledge transfer by knowledge technologies
Mechanisms of knowledge transfer
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER.
Revisiting knowledge transfer: Effects of knowledge characteristics on organizational effort for knowledge transfer
Behind knowledge transfer
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Mechanisms and Components of Knowledge Transfer: The Virtual Special Issue on Knowledge Transfer Within Organizations
Differentially private knowledge transfer for federated learning
Collaborative Knowledge Distillation via Multiknowledge Transfer
A novel framework of knowledge transfer system for construction projects based on knowledge graph and transfer learning
Understanding knowledge transfer and knowledge management through social learning
📚 Books worth reading
NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research projectThomas E. Pinelli · 1990- 📕From Physics to Daily LifeBeatrice Bressan · 2014
- 📕Beyond territoryHarald Bathelt, Maryann P. Feldman · 2011
- 📕Knowledge Transfer and InnovationNory B. Jones, John F. Mahon · 2018
- 📕South-South TransferSandra Gillespie · 2014
- 📕The global governance of knowledge creation and diffusionHelge Hveem · 2011
Improving learning transfer in organizationsElwood F. Holton, Timothy T. Baldwin · 2003- 📕Transfer und Transformation Von WissenMatthias Ballod · 2020
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