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The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/59884 The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms Marks, Jonathan ichelp@gibs.co.za Moodley,Sashin UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017. The research paper investigated contemporary issues in the knowledge transfer landscape within family businesses. The paper set out to determine the influence of contextual business factors on the transfer of tacit knowledge dimensions; namely idiosyncratic, subject-related and network-related tacit knowledge. A case study methodology was adopted due to the early stage nature of the study from a literary perspective. Three South African family businesses were investigated across multiple generations. It is argued that the stability of business operations influence the focus of family business management, resulting in learning environments that are naturally inclined toward specific tacit knowledge transfer environments. A model is proposed that highlights the propensity toward tacit knowledge dimensions based on the stability of the business environment. The findings show that within a stable business environment, management focus primarily lay on core business operations hence a subject-related and network-related tacit knowledge transfer environment is created. Alternately, in a turbulent business environment, management focus is centred on strategic management issues, resulting in an idiosyncratic tacit knowledge transfer environment, hence learning emphasis. sn2017 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2017-04-07T13:06:11Z 2017-04-07T13:06:11Z 2017-03-30 2017 Mini Dissertation Moodley, S 2017, The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59884> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59884 en © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms |
| title | The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms |
| title_full | The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms |
| title_fullStr | The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms |
| title_short | The effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms |
| title_sort | effect of contextual business attributes on the transfer of tacit knowledge in family firms |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59884 |