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Implicit Knowledge Transfer Use In Virtual Healthcare Information Systems Project Teams And Its Association With Successful Project Outcomes, Nadene A. Chambers

College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on implicit knowledge transfer in virtual information systems project teams in the healthcare industry and the association of such knowledge transfer with successful projects. The use of virtual teams is expected to continue to increase, particularly because of the passage of the HITECH Act of 2009, calling for the computerization of medical records in the United States. Although the healthcare industry has had experience with virtual teams and the use of those teams is expected to increase, there has been little research done on how implicit knowledge transfer is linked to successful projects.

A successful IT project …