O conhecimento tácito como fator complementar a adequação da transferência de rotinas: o caso de um posto avançado de suprimentos no espaço físico do cliente

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This research is an investigation of the factor that complements the adjustment in the integral transfer of organizational routines, which incorporate tacit knowledge in the replication of a series of activities related to the implementation a service office within the customer physical environment. Literature related to the subject refers to organizational routines, knowledgement and knowledge transfer. These theoretical concepts are specified in this project and allows the elaboration of a script aiming the accomplishment of a qualitative study. The script was based on the model from Szulanski (1996), in which the author analyses the internal barriers to knowledge transfer within a company, pointing three relevant factors: capacity of absorption from the receptor, casual ambiguity and the arduous relationship between the source and the receptor of the knowledge. The relevance of the subject is that the results of this research could serve as support to the managers that search for replica of their organizational structures in other physical environment, as well as a register of how organizational routines can represent successful solutions to specific problems, because they could transfer tacit knowledge components that formal systems would not be able to capture.The selected context to this study was the branch of a Swedish company, a metal cutting tool manufacturer, Sandvik do Brasil, installed in the physical environment of its customer A, a German manufacturer, from the automotive sector based on Santo André, São Paulo. The data were collected through interview, semi structured, and comments from participants, since the unity under analysis is the Sandvik do Brasil structure installed within the A industry.

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conhecimento administracao de empresas transferência de conhecimentos knowledge transfer knowledge routines rotinas

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