INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN JORDAN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY 2008

This paper describes a kind of research in the field of information systems, more specifically, in knowledge transfer in the pharmaceutical companies, the main question of this study is: How knowledge transfers effect innovation in pharmaceutical industries in Jordan. The study aims to build and test a model of knowledge transfer, and innovation, specifically in the Jordanian pharmaceutical industry, explaining the relationship between KT and organizational reflection, dialogue, double loop learning as a techniques to KT, in order to know the impact of knowledge transfer on innovation within the Jordan pharmaceutical firms for being a different geographical, and organizational dispersion, in an attempt to know its effect on increasing innovation in this sector, for the purpose of reaching competitive advantage. The results of the survey on (211) respondents in several Pharmaceutical Companies in Jordan are noted that…