“Knowledge Transfer Within the Firm: A Replication Perspective on Stickiness”

Generative mechanisms underlying stickiness remain largely unspecified in extant research. This constrains the interpretation of available findings and the derivation of normative implications from them. The replication perspective that we suggest in this paper allows us to specify a generative mechanism that underlies stickiness. We hypothesize and test the notion that accuracy mediates the relationship between stickiness and its predictors. Our analysis relies on a sample of 122 transfers of best practices within eight firms. (75 WORDS)

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