It is the sharing of a common stock of knowledge, both technical and organizational, that facilitates the transfer of knowledge within groups. This view is widely held across a disparate
literature. Arrow (1974) views one of the advantages of the organization as its ability to
economize in communication through a common code. Piore (1985, p. xxv) likens the theory of
internal labor markets to a "conception of production knowledge as being like a language" common
to a particular group of workers.