Edinburgh Napier University

  The inference of causal ambiguity of the knowledge itself is of
primary importance, since the inability to map relationships between
a capability and a performance outcome is widely regarded as a
commonality, thus, is a direct effect from successful or uns
uccessful
knowledge transfer. Contemporary literature identifies a
perspective definition of what role these relationship concepts play
in human cognitive understanding of knowledge and any
underpinning relationship characteristics, only that they may exis
t
to interfere with the transfer of knowledge at some obscure point.
Most literature assumes this myopic biased view regarding actors
interaction surrounding knowledge interpretation, as a consequence,
performance differences between groups or businesses a
re often
examined by simply using prescriptive asymmetries linked to
knowledge transfer success, but without definition of success.
With
this view in mind, we will therefore examine various literature
perspectives in which both business success and competi
tive
advantage are linked to knowledge transfer.