Abstract
This paper highlights the conditions (within the organizational environment) that play a vital role in
pursuing the sender to share knowledge and the receiver motivated enough to reproduce or apply the
received knowledge. Though these conditions are discussed in knowledge transfer literature, yet a
comprehensive framework based on all the elements of transfer of knowledge is not available. This study
has taken the basic two-person communication model into account and has defined two sets of conditions
that are essential for the transfer of knowledge. The first tier of the framework is the communication
nucleus which defines the elements of transfer of knowledge aligned with the two-person communication
model whereas, the second tier of the framework spells out the conditionality for a successful transfer of
knowledge. Two sets of conditions; one based on content factors labeled as necessary conditions and the
other based on contextual factors labeled as supportive conditions are comprehensively explained. The
framework claims that content factors are necessary for the transfer of knowledge and their absence will
cease the transfer process whereas supportive condition accelerates the transfer process, their absence
though may not cease the transfer process. The conceptual framework can be used as a set of policy
guidelines for the knowledge management strategy formation and application within organizations along
with creating the conducive environment required for creating and nurturing opportunities for transfer of
knowledge.
SHABANA GUL, WASEEF JAMAL. (2020) Necessary and Supportive Conditions for Transfer of Knowledge: A Conceptual Framework, International Review of Management and Business Research, Volume 9, Issue 4 .
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