Abstract
It has generally been believed that the possibility of transfer of implicit knowledge is provided by shearing experience. This is, however, impossible if more than one person of the same function cooperate in a project. In an attempt to find opportunities for knowledge transfer in such a situation, a case study was conducted on the transfer of skills of TV directors. In actual TV program production, the director cooperates with the producer, camera operator, editor and many other specialists but has few opportunities to work with another director which would enable him/her to give to share the experience. Consequently, a novice director has to depend on other crew members as the source of information on veteran directors' skills. The present work calls the process of skill transfer through persons with different specialties the "cross transfer" and elucidates its mechanism.
