Organizational Factors and the Performance of Knowledge Transfer in Construction Industry

The importance of managing knowledge in organizations for competitive advantage has received an amount of attention in recently years. Relatively little study has been performed on tacit knowledge transfer in the construction industry. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between organizational factors and the performance of knowledge transfer. Organizational culture, organizational structure, IT technology, and No-IT approaches as four main independent variables were identified and were also tested against knowledge transfer performance. To achieve an in-depth empirical study, two UK consultant firms and one China construction project were chosen for case study. The results reveal that there are significant relationships between some of the variables and the performance of knowledge transfer. Therefore, it is necessary for construction organizations to consider these factors in implementing knowledge management strategies within/across organization

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