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Cross Cultural Knowledge Transfer in IT Training Organisations, with specific reference to Egypt
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Due to the rapid change of conditions knowledge is becoming increasingly
more importance today. Knowledge is now considered superior to
technology and capital as a source of competitive advantage, however
needs to be efficiently transferred and well managed to explore its full
potential.
The process of knowledge transfer is actually the core business of training
organisations. Even though, as in the present study, knowledge might be
developed and maintained by third parties, yet, it is up to the training
organisation to work on transferring this knowledge to their trainees.
This study intends to investigate three main issues:
1. How knowledge is effectively transferred into an IT training
organisation especially in Egypt.
2. Do cultural, political and socio-economic factors affect the process of
knowledge transfer especially if this knowledge is an externally
produced one coming from a different foreign context?
3. How knowledge can be repacked to suit local trainees.
Attempting to cover these previous issues, a list of research aims and
objectives followed by research questions were set up. The literature
review which was found convenient, from the researcher's point of view, to
cover so far these domains is shown in the contents of this report.
In order to get empirical data to allow thorough analysis and investigation
different research methodologies and tools were used and initial results
and findings that were obtained will be presented during the course of the
report.
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