Trust, knowledge creation and mediating effects of knowledge transfer processes

• Authors: Sankowska Anna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper investigates how organizational trust contributes to knowledge transfer processes and knowledge creation both directly and indirectly. The mediation analyses were used. The findings using cross-sectional data from Polish companies suggest a new way of thinking in respect of how crucial is trust to creation of knowledge unconnected to organizational memory.

Keywords

EN

Knowledge absorption; Knowledge creation; Knowledge diffusion; Knowledge transfer; Trust

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Journal: Journal of Economics and Management
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 23
• Pages: 33-44

Contributors

author

Sankowska Anna

• Warsaw University of Technology. Faculty of Production. Institute of Production Systems Organization

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ISSN

1732-1948