An Investigation of Partner Similarity Dimensions on Knowledge Transfer

By Eric D. Darr, Terri R. Kurtzberg. 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Cultural differences and capability transfer in cross-border acquisitions: the mediating roles of capability complementarity, absorptive capacity, and social integration (2007, background): “Social integration There is extensive evidence in social psychology that perceived similarity tends to result in a higher degree of attraction towards the other party (Byrne, 1971; Darr and Kurtzberg, 2000).”
Feeling Creative, Being Creative: An Empirical Study of Diversity and Creativity in Teams (2005, background): “We like them more (Newcomb, 1961), are more willing to share resources with them (Tajfel, et al. 1971), are more likely to trust, and, indeed, even to respect the decisions and business sense of others who are like us (Darr & Kurtzberg, 2000).”
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: A BASIS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN FIRMS (2000, background): “For example, Darr, Argote, and Epple (1995) found that fast-food stores benefited from the experience of other stores in the same franchise but not from that of stores in different franchises (see also Darr & Kurtzberg, 2000).”
Making index insurance attractive to farmers (2009, background): “Again, however, how levels of trust respond to observed information quality can depend on the social context within which the information is offered (Argote et al. 2000; Darr and Kurtzberg 2000; Patt et al. 2006; Sniezek et al. 2004), and on the reputation of the person offering the information (S”
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, unknown): “…of the units involved in the transfer such as their absorptive capacity (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990), expertise (Cross & Sproull, 2004), similarity (Darr & Kurtzberg, 2000), or location (Gittleman, 2007; Jaffee, Trajtenberg & Henderson, 1993), and characteristics of the relationships among the…”
Creating Value through Offshore Outsourcing: An Integrative Framework (2013, unknown): “For example, Darr and Kurtzberg (2000) find that strategic similarity between partners is even more important than customer or locational similarities for predicting knowledge transfer.”