Strategic Management Journal上一篇最新的知识管理实证文章.pdf

Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J., 30: 959–983 (2009) Published online EarlyView in Wiley InterScience () DOI: 10.1002/smj.780 Received 2 October 2007 ; Final revision received 30 March 2009 A MULTILEVEL PERSPECTIVE ON KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: EVIDENCE FROM THE CHINESE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY 1 2 ZHENG JANE ZHAO * and JAIDEEP ANAND 1 School of Business, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. 2 Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. We adopt a multilevel perspective to study the transfer of collective and individual knowledge. By making a clear theoretical distinction between collective and individual attributes in concepts such as knowledge, teaching approach, and absorptive capacity, this study extends the knowledge transfer literature and provides fresh insights into the ways in which collective and individual knowledge are transferred. Based on a survey of the capability transfer activities of 161 engineering units of multinationals in the Chinese automotive industry, we empirically validate the distinction between individual and collective teaching activities and absorptive capacity. More importantly, we find that the largely underexplored collective-level mechanisms,