An analysis of the Transactive Memory System construct and corresponding empirical research from a multi-level perspective

Abstract

In this dissertation, the author focuses on the analysis of the Transactive Memory System (TMS) construct from an organizational multi-level perspective. Based on the discussion of current issues in TMS research, a multi-level emergence framework is developed to enable the analysis of existing empirical TMS studies from this perspective. Furthermore, an adapted model of team TMS is presented. In this adapted model, meta-knowledge about the expertise distribution is divided into individual-level and team-level awareness in order to further differentiate our understanding of knowledge transfer and application within teams.