Aalbers, Rick; Koppius, Otto; Dolfsma, Wilfred - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2006
Informal networks are often emphasized as facilitating knowledge transfer. However, we find that formal networks also … contribute significantly to knowledge transfer, and in fact contribute more than informal networks. This is particularly the case …, which suggests that knowledge transfer effects that in previous studies were attributed to informal networks only, may in …