Baby Boomers Retirement in Oil and Gas - Challenges of Knowledge Transfer for Organizational Competitive Advantage

Muhammad Saleem Sumbal, Eric Tsui, W. B. Lee

2015

Abstract

The current paper presents an overview of the baby booming phenomena and its implications on the knowledge management capabilities and competitive advantage of the organizations. Further it focuses on the baby boomer crisis in oil and gas sector and proposes a framework to investigate the knowledge transfer trends from baby boomers and its impact on organizational competitive advantage and knowledge management.

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Sumbal M., Tsui E. and Lee W. (2015). Baby Boomers Retirement in Oil and Gas - Challenges of Knowledge Transfer for Organizational Competitive Advantage . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: KMIS, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-158-8, pages 168-173. DOI: 10.5220/0005593401680173


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@conference{kmis15,
author={Muhammad Saleem Sumbal and Eric Tsui and W. B. Lee},
title={Baby Boomers Retirement in Oil and Gas - Challenges of Knowledge Transfer for Organizational Competitive Advantage},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: KMIS, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={168-173},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005593401680173},
isbn={978-989-758-158-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: KMIS, (IC3K 2015)
TI - Baby Boomers Retirement in Oil and Gas - Challenges of Knowledge Transfer for Organizational Competitive Advantage
SN - 978-989-758-158-8
AU - Sumbal M.
AU - Tsui E.
AU - Lee W.
PY - 2015
SP - 168
EP - 173
DO - 10.5220/0005593401680173