The Tacit Knowledge transfer of Transnational Corporation

Shufang Dong

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v3n6p148

Abstract

Knowledge is the essential source of enterprise competitive predominance. As the changes of the enterprise environment, the multinational corporation will pay more attention to the effective flow of knowledge and internal integration. But the cross-border transfer of the knowledge has many obstacles, especially the tacit knowledge sharing. As viewed from the tacit knowledge characteristic, it is demonstrated that the human communication is the effective method to promote tacit knowledge.

Highlights

Knowledge is the essential source of enterprise competitive predominance; it has turned into scholars’ consensuses
Knowledge is the source of enterprise competitive predominance, and tacit knowledge sharing is fundamental of enterprise constant innovation
The knowledge sharing within the organization, in particular the tacit knowledge sharing has always been the core of enterprise knowledge management, especially multinational companies

Summary

Introduction

Knowledge is the essential source of enterprise competitive predominance; it has turned into scholars’ consensuses. The explicit knowledge is the knowledge which can be clearly expressed by language, letter, data, chart and formula, which possesses characteristics of standardization and systematization, and is easy to communicate and share and generally includes product appearance, document, data base, instruction, consensuses, computer program and other forms. With the rapid development of information technology, explicit knowledge sharing and application is become extremely quickly and highly effective, interior network, knowledge database, knowledge map, electric forum and E-mail are being used in many transnational enterprises. Tacit knowledge is the knowledge with high individualization, which possesses the character that is difficult to be standardized, and always roots in the behavior itself and is not easy to share with others, and generally exists through individual experience, technical knack, organizational culture and other forms. The spread of the tacit knowledge is more dependent on space, knowledge distance, cultural distance and absorption ability

The tacit knowledge sharing of transnational corporation

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