Title :
Knowledge sharing and new business development in engineering consulting firms
Author :
Wang, Zixin ; Zhou, Haiwei ; Ding, Yuan
Author_Institution :
Strategic Management Institute of Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Abstract :
Engineering consulting firms are knowledge-intensive. The knowledge management and sharing are extremely significant to their maintenance and improvement of comprehensive competitiveness, which is the prerequisite for the development of new business. This paper focus on the content and forms of knowledge sharing in those firms and finds out a framework which illustrates the positive effects that knowledge sharing has on the development of new business in engineering consulting firms.
Keywords :
Databases; Educational institutions; Encoding; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge management; Organizations; engineering consulting firms; knowledge sharing; new business development;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7616-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICISE.2010.5691164