Knowledge inertia is one of hurdles for innovation assimilation at the organizational level. This research investigates … its impact at the individual level among professionals or knowledge workers and reveals the mechanisms either mitigating … physicians from two specialized and three comprehensive hospitals reveals the negative impact of knowledge inertia on the post …

, application, and knowledge sharing, with technological development and innovation delays. The article lists crucial factors from … technological developments makes firms depend on innovation and, in the process, develop dense networks of relationships, making … collaboration an essential requisite for innovation. Thus, collaboration develops based on complex social networks from which …