Cheng, Junshuai
(2022)
The Influence Of Country, Firm And
Individual Factors On Knowledge
Transfer Efficiency Among Chinese
Multinational Corporations.
PhD thesis, Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut.
Abstract
With the advent of the era of knowledge and information, knowledge
management has become a concern of global corporations. Moreover, multinational
Corporations (MNCs) played an increasingly important role in the development of
the global economy. Knowledge transfer in MNCs has been one of the key
challenges in the competitive era. However, from the summary and analysis of
research on knowledge transfer in previous research, it easily found that the research
issues were more one-sided and not profound. Especially, for China, with special
culture and environment, the current research could not solve the practical problems.
The main objectives of this study were to establish a completed framework and test
the influencing factors of knowledge transfer efficiency in Chinese MNCs. Therefore,
this study focused on the field of knowledge transfer in MNCs and used a holistic
perspective to study the influencing factors on knowledge transfer efficiency. The
proposed research framework of this study is supported by knowledge transfer and
social network theory, combined with previous research results synthesized, and
suggests a new model. This study considers country level factors (regulative distance,
normative distance and cognitive distance), firm level factors (subsidiary autonomy,
subsidiary position and organizational trust) and individual level factors (cultural intelligence and work performance) as independent variables, and subsidiary
characteristics (subsidiary age and subsidiary size) as moderating variable, predicting
its impact on the factors towards efficiency of knowledge transfer as the dependent
variable. This research adopts the questionnaire survey method for data collection
from the target respondents of expatriates working in Chinese MNCs. Data collected
will be analyzed with SPSS and smart-PLS in order to test the hypotheses developed.
From the theoretical perspective, based on the results of data analysis of 212
subsidiaries of Chinese multinational corporations, this study contributed to the
knowledge transfer theory and efficiency by addressing gaps identified from existing
research
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