Research on the Knowledge Transfer among Enterprise Network: A Perspective from Social Capital

Abstract

Firms need to transfer and acquire new knowledge as they seek to opportunities for mutual learning and contributes to organizational members' ability to innovate in and finally contributes to enhance performance. In attempting to understand the antecedents and consequences of organizational knowledge transfer (KT), scholars have increasingly focused on how social capital fosters KT because it is a socializing mechanism. On the other hand, enterprise network offers a platform for KT. So understanding the process of KT in network context accurately and improve the efficiency is very important issues. This paper examines the barriers to KT among enterprise network. These barriers are exactly the study scope of social capital. So using a social capital framework, this article try to analyze the concrete effects of social capital to KT among enterprise networks from three dimensions which are structural, relational and cognitive ones. From the analysis, we conclude that the degree of structural dimension of social capital is positively with the opportunity, motivation and ability of KT and the degree of relational dimension and cognitive dimension of social capital is positively with the effect of KT.