Effective Knowledge Transfer in Successful Partnering Projects

Leadership in Construction Partnering Projects

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of partnering in construction. Central to any successful partnering arrangement is the change in cultural and behavioural characteristics towards mutual trust and understanding. Leadership is originally the source of the beliefs and values which forms shared assumptions of organisational culture. This paper builds on the leadership li...

Learning and knowledge transfer in partnering: an empirical case study

Interlingua Vs Transfer? Knowledge Sharing across Projects

Sharing knowledge across projects is often considered impossible, especially if the systems involved present differences in underlying theory, representation, or even programming language. This paper, taking a collaboration between the CAT2 and PANGLOSS MT projects as an example, demonstrates that it is possible to combine resources developed separately to support the processing of different mo...

Knowledge Transfer in Npd Projects: Lessons from 12 Global Corporations

This paper, which is part of a larger study, explores the issue of Knowledge Management (KM) in 12 large-sized global manufacturing companies with the objective of developing the understanding of knowledge transfer in an applied multi-project environment. Under the basic assumption that knowledge creation is embedded in NPD activities, the question of how to transfer and share that, to a large ...

Leadership in Construction Partnering Projects: Research Methodological Perspective

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of partnering in construction. Central to any successful partnering arrangement is the change in cultural and behavioural characteristics towards mutual trust and understanding. According to Schein, cultural and behavioural characteristics can be shaped and reflected by proper leadership. This research probes leadership as the respons...