The diffusion of knowledge within organizations provides opportunities for interpersonal co-
operation, improves creative ability and therefore leads to competitive advantage. Focus of …

Purpose–This paper aims to analyze the exchange and reciprocal mechanism behind
individual knowledge transfer activities as well as their impact on the individual knowledge …

Past studies have suggested absorptive capacity plays very important role in knowledge
transfer. However, less attention has been paid to the dual process of knowledge transfer …

Modern communication networks and social networks are the main tunnels of knowledge
diffusion. Knowledge diffusion in complex networks is different from the epidemic‐like …

We apply an agent-based simulation approach to explore how and why typical network
characteristics affect overall knowledge diffusion properties. To accomplish this task, we …

Social networks provide a natural infrastructure for knowledge creation and exchange. In
this paper, we study the effects of a skewed degree distribution within formal networks on …

Firms need to develop knowledge to gain competitive advantage. However, merely
possession of knowledge does not guarantee an edge in competition. In this paper, we …

Abstract Knowledge diffusion in social networks has extensively been studied in the
communities of knowledge and innovation management and of complex networks. However …

Knowledge transfer is an iterative process between knowledge senders and knowledge
recipients. Absorptive capacity of knowledge senders has been examined in the field of …

Abstract Knowledge transmission systems differ from epidemic spreading systems in that
people who have forgotten knowledge can reacquire it through reviewing. In order to …