A research of knowledge transfer between construction consulting project teams from the sociology perspective

Abstract

Knowledge, as the carrier of construction consulting project teams, is the fundamental source of competitive advantage of the construction consulting firm. The level of knowledge management determines whether a consulting firm can get knowledge capital appreciation in competition, and ultimately improve the organization's core competitiveness. One of the core steps of knowledge management in construction consulting area is knowledge transfer between different project teams. This paper, from a sociological perspective, put forward a theory model of knowledge transfer between construction consulting project teams, extending the previous knowledge transfer research which in Information Technology, Behavior and Communication perspective and providing a new research idea for the study of knowledge transfer between construction consulting project teams. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.