Previous research on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has focused mainly on the initial implementations of the solution. However, many companies that installed ERP solutions in the late 1990’s are at the point where they need to upgrade their solution to a current release. This paper provides a model that identifies the different types of knowledge created in the initial implementatio...

Innovation of Government is an urgent demand and so Knowledge Transfer on successful eGovernment projects has attracted major attention. There is high interest in assessing model cases of projects, in using such good/best practice cases, in considering the feasibility of transfer, and in spurring an organisational learning process. Best/good Practice became to an often used and wellknown word w...

The paper focuses on the process of inter-organizational knowledge transfer and on the potential of Electronic Communication systems (ElCom). First, the different forms of knowledge exchanged by firms are classified. Then, different models are proposed of inter-organizational communication, in order to describe each particular kind of knowledge transfer process. As a result, it is argued that, ...

Offshore sourcing is the latest trend unfolding where companies look for cheaper offshore resource options to reduce their baseline costs. This involves the retrenchment of more expensive onshore resources, to be replaced by the hiring of cheaper offshore resources. A key activity is the transfer of knowledge from the onshore resource to the offshore resource. This paper looks at the key activi...

A central issue in acquiring knowledge is its appropriate transfer beyond the contexts and contents of first acquisition. In contrast to dominant "common elements" transfer theory, an inrerpretive perspective is developed, according to which "appropriate transfer" is a concept socioculturally rather than objectively defined. "Elements" perceived by the thinker as common between the current and ...

Introduction: Nowadays there is an important distance between generations in our society, especially between senior citizens and young people, who do not regularly live together. In addition, it has been demonstrated that the transfer of knowledge and experience, are the keys to sustainability of culture and tradition, as well as the transfer of values. In this context, it is necessary to promo...

Increasingly, knowledge is recognized as a critical asset, where a firm or an individual’s competitive advantage flows from a unique knowledge base. The subsequent degree to which knowledge is then recognized and valued as a resource, has been the theme of many papers on competitive advantage (Prahalad and Hamel, 1990; Barney, 1991; D’Aveni, 1994; Teece and Pisano, 1994; Spender, 1996; Nonaka a...

Co-opetition, simultaneous co-operation and competition, entails sharing knowledge that may be a key source of competitive advantage. However, sharing is dangerous when the knowledge might be used for competition. Levy et al (1999) show how a game-theoretic framework can help analyse inter-organisational knowledge sharing under conditions of co-opetition. This research extends this work into th...

An important aspect of learning is the ability to transfer knowledge from one domain to another. Recent transfer research has focused on the basic problem of how knowledge structures may be transferred and reused. In this paper, we consider the larger problem of how a learner can select the appropriate knowledge structures to transfer when many are available. We propose that previously acquired...

transfer problem-solving experience from previous tasks into the new task. Recently, the artificial intelligence community has attempted to model this transfer in an effort to improve learning on new tasks by using knowledge from related tasks. For example, classification and inference algorithms have been extended to support transfer of conceptual knowledge (for a survey see Torrey and Shavlik...