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knowledge transfer at the intra- or inter-organizational level. Following Hedberg (1981:
6) who stated “Organizations have no other brains and senses than those of their
members”, we assume that [...] motivation. Argote et al. (2003) bring together motivation, ability,
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and opportunity. Other studies analyzing these factors for knowledge transfer are
Minbaeva et al. (2003) [...] 7% rate of return. The mean age of physicians in our sam-
ple is 40.8 years. The average tenure is 6.8 years and 55% of the responding physicians
are male. The distribution of age and gender of the physicians …