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标题：Relationship between Total Quality Management, Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Diffusion in the Academic Settings
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作者：Moslem Alimohammadlou ; Moslem Alimohammadlou ; Farzaneh Eslamloo 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2016
卷号：230
页码：104-111
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.09.013
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：Abstract In the emerging knowledge economy, universities play a critical role in knowledge transfer and knowledge diffusion of their research findings to the industry. Using the Total Quality Management opens a new horizon in higher education settings in order to facilitate knowledge transfer process and institutionalize its diffusion in the industrial contexts. In doing so, the main purpose of this study is to investigate total quality management practices affecting knowledge transfer and knowledge diffusion in the academic settings. The method used in this study is a correlation method, and structural equation modeling (SEM) are utilized to analyze the data by means of the path analysis. The research instrument is the questionnaire. The study's participants are a sample of all graduate students, PhD student and Professors of three departments at Shiraz University, Iran; of which 169 persons randomly selected as examples of expertise. The findings of the study indicated a significant relation between learning, Autonomy, as the TQM practices and knowledge transfer, and between knowledge transfer and knowledge diffusion. The study also pointed out that among the TQM practices, learning and Employee Fulfillment, have the significant correlation with knowledge diffusion
关键词：Total Quality Management;Knowledge Diffusion;Knowledge Transfer;Academic Setting Intrioduction