Overcoming Stickiness: How the Timing of Knowledge Transfer Methods Affects Transfer Difficulty

Although acknowledging everyone who provided helpful comments, suggestions, and encouragement at various stages of this work would simply be impossible given space restrictions, the authors would like to give special thanks to senior editor Ann Majchrzak, four anonymous reviewers, Sidney Winter, Yves Doz, Linda Argote, Maurizio Zollo, Scott Rockart, Joe Porac, Henrich Greve, Sendil Ethiraj, Costas Markides, Paul Adler, Massimo Maoret, Govert Vroom, Sun Hyun Park, Jaehong Song, Phanish Puranam, George Huber, and the seminar participants at INSEAD, London Business School, University of North Carolina, University of Southern California, University of California Irvine, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore, Seoul National University, ESADE Business School, IESE Business School, Brigham Young University, the Academy of Management, and the Strategic Management Society conferences. The first two authors contributed equally to this paper and should be regarded as joint first authors (listed in order of seniority).