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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 325-340Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.05.003
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Knowledge transfer; Cross-project; Project management; IT services; Project-based organization; Mixed methods research
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Despite the significance of the knowledge initiatives at project level, our understanding of knowledge transfer between projects and of its influencing factors remains limited. Drawing on knowledge transfer and project management literature, we develop a theoretical model positing that cross-project knowledge transfer is influenced by project teams' transfer capabilities, project teams' relationship, project task context and project team context. We adopt mixed methods and empirically test the model in the context of Chinese IT services firms. Our data analysis reveals that cross-project knowledge transfer is affected differently by the capabilities of and governance efforts by the source and recipient teams. Our study concludes that project-based organizations and project managers will be able to better manage the complexity of cross-project knowledge transfer if they simultaneously consider the multiple dimensions of factors underlying the complex knowledge transfer process and be mindful of the source and recipient of knowledge in the project setting. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.
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