Empirical Study On Influential Factors Of Knowledge Transfer Between Cluster Enterprises

In the “global scattered and regional concentration” pattern of the globalindustrial division，the industrial cluster increasingly dominates the layout of worldeconomic. In the knowledge economy times，knowledge is the main production factor，the cluster enterprises how to improve their own knowledge system throughknowledge transfer and promote knowledge ability to obtain competitive advantagehas been the focus of attention of academia.This paper broke traditional approach of “production system”，but integrated thetheory of knowledge management and traditional industrial cluster，thought theindustry cluster and individual cluster enterprises as “knowledge system”，thenstudied the subjective and objective factors which influence knowledge transfer, andthe direct or indirect effect，to what extent. On the basis of literature review and fieldinterview，this paper put forward hypothesis，designed the variables，selected the scaleand constructed the conceptual model. The conceptual model was divided intofourteen explanatory variations，including knowledge attribute，the main body ofknowledge transfer (senders and receivers)，knowledge transfer mode，cluster contextfactors (adjacent，relationships network，knowledge distribution)，and thirty-sixhypothesis which reflect the relationship between the various potential variable. Andthen did a small sample analysis，measured the quality of the questionnaire and data，through the various data inspection method，refined the questionnaire by deleting thebad measurement items，formed the final item-subscale and questionnaire.After large scale survey of enterprises，withdraw288valid questionnaires，covering different kinds of manufacturing industry clusters. In the structural equationanalysis，used Amos18.0statistical analysis software to fitting validation of theconceptual model and certifying relevant hypothesis. Thirty hypothesizes got thesupport of empirical results， six hypothesizes were not passed and one ofhypothesizes got opposite result，but significant effect. The empirical research fittingresults show that the whole knowledge system of industrial cluster provided knowledge transfer platform for heterogeneous enterprise and could promoteknowledge obtaining performances and knowledge using abilities directly orindirectly in the knowledge transfer. There existed positive correlation between thewill of knowledge transfer bodies and knowledge transfer performance. There existednegative correlation between knowledge attribute and knowledge transferperformance. Some hypothesizes didn’t pass but it could find reasonable explanationunder the reality background of Chinese manufacturing industry cluster.After comprehensive comparison analysis，this paper found out the key factorsthat influenced cluster enterprises knowledge transfer performance includingknowledge embedding，enterprise learning and cluster relation network. Also foundsome phenomena that were out of tune with traditional theory. These findings havecertain practical rationality and authenticity in our country similar industry cluster，have a new understanding of enterprise knowledge transfer’s phenomenon andregulation in industrial cluster with region qualities or endogenous type of industrialcluster.This paper aims to research the factors，which influence enterprise knowledgetransfer in situations of cluster，and provide the theory reference to the clusterenterprises’ knowledge management decision，the governments’ economic and socialdecisions about the construction of the regional innovation system，and the clusterstrategy planning and so on. Also it is a useful supplement to the cluster research inChinese context.