 Research Design and MethodsPrescott C. Ensign Chapter 3 in Knowledge Sharing among Scientists, 2009, pp 39-61 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract As highlighted in chapter 1, the informal interpersonal sharing of scientific know-how resident in individuals is a particularly salient issue at present. Firms not only convey articulated technology within and between organizational groups and units through formal means, but firms actively engage in the informal conveyance of intermediate technological knowledge at the R&D task (interpersonal) level rather than or in addition to finished parcels of codified technology. Further, the firm may be structured such that even within a single organizational group or unit, innovative activity (R&D work) is both technologically and physically dispersed. To test the hypotheses and answer questions on how reputation operates in technological knowledge sharing, a survey is administered to individuals in R&D groups in the units (corporate and business/product/technology) of multidivisional, multinational pharmaceutical firms. Such an approach meets the demands of this study and forms the basis for this book. Keywords: Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Knowledge Sharing; Contextual Variable; Technological Knowledge; Past Behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-61713-1_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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