The Effect Of The Use Of Mobile Technologies By Management In Polish Manufacturing Enterprises On The Efficiency Of Knowledge Transfer Within A Company

Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska

doi:10.1515/fman-2015-0033

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The Effect Of The Use Of Mobile Technologies By Management In Polish Manufacturing Enterprises On The Efficiency Of Knowledge Transfer Within A Company

Foundations of Management

Volume 7 (2015): Issue 1 (June 2015)

By: Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska

Open Access

|Jan 2016

Abstract

This article elaborates an existence of a positive effect of the use of mobile technologies by managers, according to their competences, on the efficiency of explicit knowledge transfer in a manufacturing company. It focuses on the set of the competences of managers, who use the mobile technologies in manufacturing companies and is based on a survey and data obtained from 119 Polish manufacturing enterprises. This article develops a framework of how managers can determinate the knowledge transfer in a manufacturing company and further discusses the research results.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fman-2015-0033 | Journal eISSN: 2300-5661 | Journal ISSN: 2080-7279

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Language: English

Page range: 159 - 168

Published on: Jan 6, 2016

Published by: Warsaw University of Technology

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Keywords:

case study,

knowledge management tools,

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Business management,

Management accounting, financial controlling, cost calculation, investment

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