Impediments to Inter-Firm Transfer of Best Practice in an Enterprise Systems Context

Authors

  • Greg Timbrell
  • Natalie Andrews
  • Guy Gable

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v9i1.219

Keywords:

Knowledge Management, interorganisational, Australia, enterprise systems

Abstract

A survey of major issues with Enterprise Systems was administered within the State Government of Queensland, Australia and a subset of these issues mapped against Szulanski’s model of inter-firm best practice transfer stickiness (Szulanski, G. 1996. Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 17(Special Issue), 27-43). The paper discusses impediments to knowledge transfer within this context, presents findings from the a posteriori application of Szulanski’s model to the survey responses, and suggests future research directions.

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How to Cite

Timbrell, G., Andrews, N., & Gable, G. (2001). Impediments to Inter-Firm Transfer of Best Practice in an Enterprise Systems Context. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v9i1.219

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2001): Theme: Knowledge Management

Section

Research on Knowledge Management

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