Negative aspects of counter-knowledge on absorptive capacity and human capital

People live and work in a world where they do not have complete knowledge and, as a result, they make use of rumours, beliefs and assumptions about relevant areas of concern. The term counter-knowledge has been used to refer to knowledge created from unverified sources. The purpose of this paper is...

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Autores: Cegarra Navarro, Juan Gabriel, Cepeda Carrión, Gabriel, Wensley, Anthony K. P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena(UPCT)
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital UPCT
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.upct.es:10317/8582
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10317/8582
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JIC-01-2015-0010
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Financial performance
Human capital
Absorptive capacity
Knowledge transfer
Counter-knowledge
Organización de Empresas
5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
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Sumario:People live and work in a world where they do not have complete knowledge and, as a result, they make use of rumours, beliefs and assumptions about relevant areas of concern. The term counter-knowledge has been used to refer to knowledge created from unverified sources. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between counter-knowledge and human capital (HC) as well as investigating interactions between absorptive capacity (ACAP) and HC.