Project Complexity and Knowledge Transfer in Global Software Outsourcing Project Teams: A Transactive Memory Systems Perspective

Author

Qu, Gang ; Ji, Shaobo ; Nsakanda, Aaron

Author_Institution

Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Jan. 2012

Firstpage

3776

Lastpage

3785

Abstract

The paper presents results based on a study that examined the relationship between transactive memory systems (TMS) and knowledge transfer performance (KTP) in the context of global software outsourcing project teams. Based on a cross sectional sample of 107 project managers and using structural equation modeling method, the study verifies the moderating effect of project complexity on the relationship between TMS and KTP. It is concluded that TMS is an important facilitator to KTP and project complexity, as a moderating factor, plays an important role in specialization on team knowledge transfer.

Keywords

computational complexity; knowledge management; outsourcing; software management; KTP; TMS; global software outsourcing project teams; knowledge transfer performance; project complexity; structural equation modeling method; team knowledge transfer; transactive memory systems perspective; Complexity theory; Context; Correlation; Knowledge transfer; Outsourcing; Software; Uncertainty; IS project complexity; Transactive memory systems; global software outsourcing; knowledge transfer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Science (HICSS), 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1925-7

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2012.488

Filename

6149256