Knowledge Sharing Among Scientists: Why Reputation Matters for R&D in Multinational Firms

By Prescott C. Ensign

Book Overview

Explores the relationship between social characteristics of scientists and the interpersonal sharing of technological knowledge. The findings illuminate attributes of reputation conducive to the voluntary transfer of timely, relevant, technological knowledge among individual R&D scientists in the same multidivisional, multinational firm.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230611737
• ISBN13: 9780230611733
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"