Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing what They Know

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Harvard Business School Press, 2000 - Business & Economics - 188 pages
'Common Knowledge' gets to the heart of one of the most difficult questions in knowledge transfer today; what makes a system work effectively in one organization but fail miserably in another? Based on an in-depth study of several organizations, 'Common Knowledge' reveals groundbreaking insights into how organizational knowledge is created, how it can be effectively shared--and why transfer systems work when they do. "Know-how" that is unique to a specific company is the stuff of which sustained competitive advantage is made.

About the author (2000)

Nancy M. Dixon is an Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences at The George Washington University. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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