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Beyond boundary spanners: The 'collective bridge' as an efficient interunit structure for transferring collective knowledge

Strategic management journal, 2013-12, Vol.34 (13), p.1513-1530 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ;Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ;Copyright Wiley Periodicals Inc. Dec 2013 ;ISSN: 0143-2095 ;EISSN: 1097-0266 ;DOI: 10.1002/smj.2080 ;CODEN: SMAJD8

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Title:
Beyond boundary spanners: The 'collective bridge' as an efficient interunit structure for transferring collective knowledge
Author: ZHAO, ZHENG JANE ; ANAND, JAIDEEP
Subjects: boundary spanners ; Bridge engineering ; Bridges ; Collective behaviour ; collective bridge ; collective knowledge ; complexity ; Cost efficiency ; Cost structure ; Decentralization ; Design engineering ; Industrial design ; Information science ; Information sharing ; Knowledge ; Knowledge management ; knowledge transfer ; Maintenance costs ; Manufacturing engineering ; Motivation ; Organizational structure ; organizational structures ; Product design ; Strategic management ; Studies
Is Part Of: Strategic management journal, 2013-12, Vol.34 (13), p.1513-1530
Description: This research introduces a framework for selecting efficient interunit structures in facilitating the transfer of knowledge with different levels of complexity. We argue that while the boundary spanner structure is efficient for transferring discrete knowledge, it is inadequate for transferring collectively held complex knowledge. We propose that the transfer of such knowledge requires a more decentralized interunit structure—collective bridge, which is a set of direct interunit ties connecting the members of the source and the recipient units, with the configuration of the interunit ties matching the complexity of knowledge to be transferred. We suggest that while a collective bridge is inefficient in transferring discrete knowledge relative to a boundary spanner structure, it is more efficient for transferring collective knowledge.
Publisher: Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0143-2095
EISSN: 1097-0266
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2080
CODEN: SMAJD8
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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Beyond boundary spanners: The 'collective bridge' as an efficient interunit structure for transferring collective knowledge

Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ;Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ;Copyright Wiley Periodicals Inc. Dec 2013 ;ISSN: 0143-2095 ;EISSN: 1097-0266 ;DOI: 10.1002/smj.2080 ;CODEN: SMAJD8

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