The Effect Of The Use Of Mobile Technologies By Management In Polish Manufacturing Enterprises On The Efficiency Of Knowledge Transfer Within A Company

• Authors: Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article elaborates an existence of a positive effect of the use of mobile technologies by managers, according to their competences, on the efficiency of explicit knowledge transfer in a manufacturing company. It focuses on the set of the competences of managers, who use the mobile technologies in manufacturing companies and is based on a survey and data obtained from 119 Polish manufacturing enterprises. This article develops a framework of how managers can determinate the knowledge transfer in a manufacturing company and further discusses the research results.

Keywords

EN

case study; knowledge management tools; knowledge transfer; inter-organizational

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Foundations of Management
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 159-168

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2016-01-06

Contributors

author

Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska

• University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/fman-2015-0033