Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms and Its Effect within Organizations---Exploring from the Perspectives of Transaction Cost in Knowledge Market
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Yu, Kuo-Jen
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Knowledge transfer is a trans-disciplined subject, which can be explored from different facets and interpreted from various perspectives. Viewing from transaction cost analysis of economics, this study aims to delve into the influence of transaction cost factors on knowledge transaction (transfer) mechanisms as well as the influence of knowledge transaction cost factors and knowledge transaction (transfer) mechanisms on knowledge transfer performances. This study therefore first reviewed previous literature on knowledge transfer, and from which deduced the presence of knowledge market as well as its characteristics to explain the rationality of knowledge transaction individual within organizations utilizing transaction cost analysis, and further from which inferred factors that affected knowledge transaction cost inside organizations.
The researcher conducted a survey of domestic university EMBA students and applied structural equation modeling (SEM) for data analysis. There were three major findings. First, in the aspect of influence of knowledge transaction cost factors on the choice of knowledge transfer mechanisms, “task uncertainty”, “information completeness”, “information asymmetry”, and “knowledge tacitness” had direct influence on knowledge buyers when they chose knowledge transfer mechanisms. While “trust”, “task uncertainty”, “information completeness”, “knowledge tacitness”, “knowledge asset specificity” had indirect influence on the choice of knowledge transfer mechanisms. Second, in the aspect of influence of knowledge transfer mechanisms on knowledge transfer performances, “knowledge medium transaction mechanism” and “strong tie knowledge communities” had significant and positive influence on the three knowledge transfer performances of timeliness, reliability as well as usefulness. In addition, “knowledge medium transfer mechanism” and “strong tie knowledge communities” had also indirect influence on the above three performances noticeably and positively. However, “weak tie knowledge communities” did not show significant influence on the above three performances either directly or indirectly. Third, in the aspect of influence of knowledge transaction cost factors and knowledge transfer mechanisms on knowledge transfer performances, knowledge transaction cost factors such as “trust”, “task uncertainty”, “information completeness”, “information asymmetry”, and “knowledge tacitness” had direct and indirect influence on knowledge transfer performances. The research findings carry many implications in theory and in practice, on which one can base and refer to for future research and application.
Subjects
knowledge transfer
knowledge market
transaction cost analysis
knowledge medium
knowledge community
strong tie
weak tie
Type
other
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