Sun Rui
College of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, 362021, Quanzhou, Fujian, China
Liu Xianyue
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
Knowledge has become the strategic elements of production, it is also the important source of competitive advantage. The key to a firms existence and development in an open and dynamic competitive context is acquiring the required knowledge timely and effectively. Knowledge transfer is a crucial step for a firm to obtain external knowledge, therefore, researching on the factors Influencing inter-firm knowledge transfer would be helpful for a firm to overcome obstacles and enhance the inter-subject knowledge transfer performance. The author analyzes the impacts of subjective and objective factors on inter-firm knowledge transfer from the perspectives of the attributes of the objects; the transferring intention, ability, learning behavior and transferring pattern of the subjects, in order that some common factors influencing inter-firm knowledge transfer be identified and investigated which would be instructive to the researches on knowledge management in organizations.
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Received: August 02, 2013;
Accepted: October 08, 2013;
Published: November 12, 2013
How to cite this article
Sun Rui and Liu Xianyue, 2013. Researching on the Factors Influencing Inter-firm Knowledge Transfer. Journal of Applied Sciences, 13: 4708-4713.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.4708.4713
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2013.4708.4713
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.4708.4713
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2013.4708.4713
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