کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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276193 | 1429690 | 2013 | 13 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

It is a major challenge for project-based organizations to learn across project boundaries by making project-level knowledge available to the organization as a whole. This study argues that project teams' social capital is conducive to overcoming barriers to learning in project-based organizations. Based on a large-scale analysis of engineering projects in Germany, the study shows that project teams' social capital, i.e. the intra-organizational social ties of project teams with their colleagues outside the project, compensates for project teams' lack of opportunity, motivation, and ability to make project-learnings available to the organization as a whole. By contributing to overcoming barriers to learning in project-based organizations, social capital represents an important driver of organizational learning about market conditions, products and technologies as well as project management.
► We study how to overcome learning barriers in project-based organizations.
► Learning depends on project teams' social capital, i.e. social ties with colleagues.
► Social capital drives opportunities, motivation and ability to learn.
► Social capital-based learning affects all key knowledge domains.
Journal: International Journal of Project Management - Volume 31, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 239–251