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Organizational Knowledge Transfer - a study of a Foreign Company in China

Hofgren, Gustav (2005)
Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to look at what kinds of motives are driving the company Pegasus, and its Chinese partners, in the quest of establishing themselves on the Chinese market. Furthermore it seeks to understand what kinds of problems are present for the company in regards to organizational knowledge transfer. As for method the main form of data gathering interviews were conducted. All the key players at Pegasus China were interviewed. Besides this internal documents from Pegasus were reviewed and observations were made at some points in the organization. It so happens that most of the main elements regarding the motives studied seemed to be present at Pegasus as well. Besides this some fascinating problems regarding organizational... (More)
The purpose of this thesis is to look at what kinds of motives are driving the company Pegasus, and its Chinese partners, in the quest of establishing themselves on the Chinese market. Furthermore it seeks to understand what kinds of problems are present for the company in regards to organizational knowledge transfer. As for method the main form of data gathering interviews were conducted. All the key players at Pegasus China were interviewed. Besides this internal documents from Pegasus were reviewed and observations were made at some points in the organization. It so happens that most of the main elements regarding the motives studied seemed to be present at Pegasus as well. Besides this some fascinating problems regarding organizational knowledge transfer were identified. (Less)
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author
Hofgren, Gustav
supervisor
organization
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
China, organizational theory, management, technology transfer, knowledge transfer, Social sciences, Samhällsvetenskaper
language
English
id
1331410
date added to LUP
2005-12-28 00:00:00
date last changed
2005-12-28 00:00:00
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  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Organizational Knowledge Transfer - a study of a Foreign Company in China}},
  year         = {{2005}},
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