Abstract
Nowadays, with a significant growth in the number of organizations, they seeks to increase their competitive advantages as much as possible. One of the effective approaches is knowledge management, through which organizations try to reuse the experiences and knowledge created in their previous projects. Today, many projects are carried out by forces from other nationalities, in which each participating organization operates within complex national, organizational, and information contexts. So, knowledge is transferred between geographically dispersed individuals and organizations, and across cultural and national boundaries. Given these conditions, knowledge management processes, especially the transfer and acquisition of knowledge, are very important. The purpose of the present study is to design a conceptual framework of the contextual factors affecting the knowledge transfer in transnational projects using meta-synthesis method. For this purpose, firstly the previous research has been studied and interpreted the factors which are effective in transferring knowledge from different sources and then analyzed them using the open coding method to propose a conceptual framework
Highlights
As rich sources of knowledge, projects can build up organizations’ competency and be more effectiveness if they are able to transfer their generated knowledge to other organizations and projects
Organizations are required to provide a setting for knowledge sharing, transferring and exchanging among their members, train them to make sense of their interaction, and lay the foundations for the recognition of contextual factors in the deployment of knowledge management in organization [6]
The research method of this study is meta-synthesis. This method is used to identify the contextual factors for transnational knowledge transfer in or-der to integrate several studies in order to design a comprehensive and interpretive framework
Summary
As rich sources of knowledge, projects can build up organizations’ competency and be more effectiveness if they are able to transfer their generated knowledge to other organizations and projects. A number of studies lay emphasis on the acquisition and sharing of knowledge project so as to mitigate the risk [1, 2, 3, and 4]. Organizations are required to provide a setting for knowledge sharing, transferring and exchanging among their members, train them to make sense of their interaction, and lay the foundations for the recognition of contextual factors in the deployment of knowledge management in organization [6]. In today’s world, with the increasing complexity of projects in all industries, carrying out each project requires a high level of knowledge and expertise, which some countries, developing countries seem unable to get them off their ground, despite their essential foundations within their borders.In an increasingly globalized world, there is a need for companies to go cross-border. Various types of international contracts are signed and organizations start projects beyond their own borders without a mutual nationality
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