A comparative case study of intergenerational knowledge transfer of aerospace science & technology projects in China and America

Abstract

Abstract: Based on knowledge transfer theory in management science and intergeneration theory in sociological science, we established a Context-Method-Effect model to disclose the casual relationship in the intergenerational knowledge transfer. By taking use of comparative case study methods, we compared intergenerational knowledge transfer of aerospace projects in China and in America, to verify the variable relationship of the proposed model. The results show that in knowledge-intensive industries, the characteristics of intergenerational knowledge transfer would decide transfer effects, and the mentoring method can result in better intergenerational knowledge transfer effects than the knowledge repository method.

Key words: intergenerational knowledge transfer, knowledge transfer model, mentoring system, knowledge repository, aerospace projects

CLC Number:

G251.3

Wang Xin, Wang Jianing. A comparative case study of intergenerational knowledge transfer of aerospace science & technology projects in China and America[J]. Science Research Management, 2014, 35(11): 17-25.

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