Pushing the Boundaries on Mentoring: Can Mentoring be a Knowledge Tool?(Report‪)‬

1. Introduction Accepting that organizations act on very dynamic environments where the pressure demanding continuous adaptation is huge, one of the most important challenges to firms is to grant access to knowledge on a permanent basis during change periods. We believe that mentors have a key role as access facilitators to knowledge in the change periods. Somewhat surprisingly the importance of the mentor as a facilitator of access to knowledge is understudied in the mentoring literature. Considering the former arguments we have developed this study aiming to explore the role and importance of mentors as knowledge access facilitators. We have approached that role in two different ways. We set apart the knowledge base in two categories: Information centres and organizational memory, accepting that mentors act differently accordingly.