Study on the Effect of Network Embeddedness to Knowledge Acquisition in Different Stage

摘要

Network embeddedness affects the validity of enterprise knowledge acquisition. Former related studies were mainly made integratively, focusing on the ultimate result of knowledge acquisition,which is difficult to obtain a consentaneous conclusion. In this paper, based on the review and analysis of former researches, knowledge acquisition is divided into four stages, including search,discrimination, receiving, application, and innovation. According the characteristics of the four stages of knowledge acquisition, the effects of relational embeddedness and structural embeddedness upon enterprise knowledge acquisition are analyzed and discussed by using the method of demonstration. The result shows that, when knowledge acquisition takes place at different stages, the effects of network embeddedness upon the knowledge acquisition display a remarkable difference.