Purpose: A community of practice (CoP) is believed to be a driver for knowledge creation but it can hinder knowledge sharing across boundaries. Drawing on social cognitive theory, this study aims to investigate how a CoP within a single unit promotes knowledge sharing with other units by...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how business professionals learn both through sharing knowledge with others, and from their own direct experience. Design/methodology/approach – There are two contrasting approaches to knowledge management. One suggests that knowledge should...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to examine how human resource development (HRD) programs promote the linkage between knowledge transfer and knowledge creation in engineering departments. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopted a case study approach to the Toyota Technical...