From a retail environment, we reflect on the unity of knowledge as valuable in a business context, and from an Ignatian … perspective, consider a reflexion of knowledge transfer practitioners to elementary cognition. We deliberate why, despite decades … of analytical scrutiny, agreement around the transfer of knowledge into a value item within a business milieu, remains …

To underpin the importance of knowledge, the European commissioner for science and research Janez Potocnic confirms … that in today's global world, generating new knowledge and turning it into new products and services is crucial to enhance … competitiveness. (Potocnic, 2007) In distinguishing between the linear notion of knowledge transfer and the business success attached …

Dominant research streams in the knowledge transfer field, such as the positivist and social constructionist approaches …, largely assume that knowledge transfer is accomplished through instructions and/or socially constructed practices. Underlying … enable an unproblematic knowledge transfer. In contrast, we argue that the decoding of information into meaningful knowledge …

To date, there is an identifiable disunion in literature as to where the locus of attention for knowledge transfer … should be. Felin and Hesterly, (2007) remark that knowledge is created and initiated at the organisational level. Conversely …, (Inkpen and Dinur, 1998) indicate that knowledge creation is initiated and knowledge transfer is conducted at the individual …