Effective Knowledge Transfer in Sino-Foreign Buyer-Supplier Relationships

摘要

Effective knowledge transfer is critical to the success of inter-organizational alliances.However,achieving effective knowledge transfer is often problematic in cross-cultural strategic cooperation, and is a primary cause of failure in many such relationships. In this study, we first identified inter-firm diversity in management and technology as two major impediments of knowledge transfer, and posited that selecting appropriate communication media could help organizations reduce the impact of inter-finn diversity on knowledge transfer.