Transfer mechanisms and strategic knowledge management in health and safety companies

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the knowledge transfer mechanisms and strategic knowledge management inoccupational safety and health (OSH) companies. The main authors consulted for the study were Davenport(6), Molina, and Marsal (8). The research is descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional and withfield design. Results indicate that the spontaneous transference is present through personal meetings, andformal transference is mainly characterized by counselling. We found weaknesses in the strategic analysisand objectives definitions for the strategic knowledge management in the studied organizations.