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Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms

Margit Osterloh
University of Zurich - Institute for Organization and Administrative Science

Bruno S. Frey
University of Zurich - Faculty of Business Administration - Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (IEW); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

November 1999

IEER Working Paper No. 27

Abstract:
Employees are motivated intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Intrinsic motivation is crucial when tacit knowledge in and between teams must be transferred. Organizational forms enable different kinds of motivation and have different capacities to generate and transfer tacit knowledge. Since knowledge generation and transfer are essential for a firm's sustainable competitive advantage, we ask specifically what kinds of motivation are needed to generate and transfer tacit knowledge, as opposed to explicit knowledge.

Keywords: Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, Tacit Knowledge, Crowding Effects, Firm Theory, Resource-based View

JEL Classifications: A12, J33, L22, M12

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Date posted: August 07, 2000 ; Last revised: August 23, 2000

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Osterloh, Margit and Frey, Bruno S., Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms (November 1999). IEER Working Paper No. 27. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=230010 or doi:10.2139/ssrn.230010

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Margit Osterloh (Contact Author) University of Zurich - Institute for Organization and Administrative Science ( email ) Plattenstrasse 14 CH-8032 Zurich Switzerland +41 01 634 28 41 (Phone) +41 01 634 49 42 (Fax)
Bruno S. Frey University of Zurich - Faculty of Business Administration - Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (IEW) ( email ) Winterthurerstrasse 30 CH-8006 Zurich Switzerland +41 44 634 37 31 (Phone) +41 44 634 35 99 (Fax)
CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Poschinger Str. 5 DE-81679 Munich Germany HOME PAGE: http://www.CESifo.de
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ( email ) Zürichbergstrasse 18 8092 Zurich CH-1015 Switzerland