Purpose: Virtual product development teams are geographically dispersed and cross-functional, but yet they work on highly interdependent tasks by communicating electronically in work groups. This among other issues presents new challenges for the management of knowledge transfer. Based on...

In this article we tested a process-knowledge allocation (PKA) method on real knowledge intensive process. PKA method is based on optimal balance between employee knowledge structure and process structural indexes (degree of process lean-ity). We found out that is useful in knowledge intensive...