Research on the Influencing Factors of Knowledge Transfer in CooperativeNetwork: A View from the Effect of Network Structure

摘要

Knowledge transfer amid organizational units provides chances for shared learning and contributes to makinginnovation of organizational unit’s ability. Cooperative network offers a platform for knowledge transfer among organizationalunits. So to understand the process of knowledge transfer of several inter-organizations accurately and improve theeffectiveness of knowledge transfer in the cooperative network is one of the most important problems that enterprises areconfronted with commonly. In this article we investigate the critical influencing aspects of knowledge transfer amidmember organizations in the cooperative network from the perspective of network structure. We analyze the relationshipbetween the critical structure characteristics (including network density, network range, network tie strength and networkcentricity) and the efficiency of knowledge transfer and we get the conclusion that the four network structure characteristicsare Closely contacted with the easiness of knowledge transfer.