As identified above, both the theory of communication and the theory of translation
appear to be two different yet complementary theories for the area of knowledge transfer.
The former explains the behavioural side of knowledge transfer, i.e. act of collaboration
between the source and the receiver; whilst the latter sheds some lights on how to
efficiently transform knowledge into a usable form. Based on these two theories, this
section of this paper attempts to develop a process model for knowledge transfer