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

Abstract

Knowledge transfer amid organizational units provides chances for shared learning and contributes to making innovation of organizational unit’s ability. Cooperative network offers a platform for knowledge transfer among organizational units. So to understand the process of knowledge transfer of several inter-organizations accurately and improve the effectiveness of knowledge transfer in the cooperative network is one of the most important problems that enterprises are confronted with commonly. In this article we investigate the critical influencing aspects of knowledge transfer amid member organizations in the cooperative network from the perspective of network structure. We analyze the relationship between the critical structure characteristics (including network density, network range, network tie strength and network centricity) and the efficiency of knowledge transfer and we get the conclusion that the four network structure characteristics are closely contacted with the easiness of knowledge transfer.