Research Cooperation, Learning Processes, and Trust among Plant Scientists: Fictive Kinship, Academic Mobility, and Scientists’ Careers

Pettersson, Helena

doi:10.1057/9781137492739_12

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“…International mobility to such environments was thus understood as a natural-and often necessary-part of their career development. Being mobile, namely working in different medical research institutions, is as such understood as a learning phase and a way to become a member of a state-of-the-art community (Pettersson 2011;Pettersson 2015).…”

Section: Different Conditions For Mobility Learning and Knowledge Transfer: The Three Casesmentioning

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Knowledge Transfer Work: A Case of Internationally Mobile Medical Professionals

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Boström

Pettersson

2020

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This article addresses the relationship between highly skilled international mobility and knowledge by focussing on knowledge transfer work. Empirically, this study is based on interviews of professionals in the Swedish medical field who returned to Sweden after a period of work in other countries. The medical field harbours many transnationally valid competences and standardised lines of work, but even in this field, knowledge transfer is a process requiring effort, skills, negotiation, translation and adjustment to the specific organisational and cultural contexts. The studied professionals' knowledge transfer work showed a spectrum, ranging from smooth, almost friction-free transfers to the ones where much translation and transformation was required, depending on the context and the professional's status in the workplace. The professionals also developed and made use of knowledge transfer skills, such as the ability to observe, analyse and adjust to cultural differences between workplaces, healthcare systems or academic systems, as well as the ability to translate knowledge to make it relevant and viable in the specific context.

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Section: Different Conditions For Mobility Learning and Knowledge Transfer: The Three Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%