Empirical Research On The Multinational Process Of Internal Knowledge Transfer And Impact Factors

A parent corporation control subsidiaries always by hierarchy some years ago. But recently this is changed, as we can see that organizational form of multinational corporations(MNC) have been shift from hierarchy into the mix-system of hierarchy and internal market, thus make a differentiated network, in which some organizational forms ,such as wholly hierarchy control, international join venture and alliance can co-exit. It's distinctly that it can help MNC get local knowledge, and be useful to transfer knowledge at the level of intra- organization. But this complex organizational system also make difficult to transfer knowledge at inter-organization due to a reduced authority in differentiated network. Even in the internal market, the motivation and initiative will be decreased because of the bound rationalism and opportunism. So the research of how to help transfer knowledge within MNC at the dimension of organization mechanics should not be ignored.According to empirical research, a context model including transferring process and influence factors has been constructed at a base of literatures review. This model consist of knowledge character, organizational compare context, transfer mechanics and acquisition character, in which have 14 explaining variables. Then some hypothesis about how to influence knowledge transfer have been put forward.After investigating many subsidiaries of foreign and Chinese MNC in China, 125 final samples were collected. The author use SPSS12.0 program to analyse cronbach's a reliability and construct validity of these samples at first, then its quality is confirmed again by correctional and multi-collinearity analysis.The main statistical method the author use to prove model and hypothesis is structure equation model(SEM), by which the relations between some variables and explained variables have been confirmed, and the other can't be supported.In detail speaking, the direct effect to transfer knowledge within MNC about simple-embed, knowledge gap, relation distance and organizational support are valid, the other variables such as tacit, complex-embed, physics distance, rule difference, absorptive capacity are not significant, some of them influence knowledge transfer indirectly by the mediation of three kinds of transfer mechanism.The result show that the basic mechanism can full mediate tacit, rule difference and absorptive capacity, and can partial mediate organizational supported. Other mediator variables, such as the second mechanism and informal mechanism, whose...