| Family business,as an ancient form of organization,exists widely in the world,because of its inherent characteristics although suffers difficulties and hardships but is still enduring.However,from the individual point of view,the existence of the family business is generally short,the level of sustainable development is low,some even a flash in the pan,and failure of the intergenerational succession is one of the main reasons for this phenomenon.So how to realize the smooth succession between generations has become the focus of the study of family business,many scholars began to focus on the content of the succession to try to explore the impact of intergenerational transmission,it is generally accepted that knowledge transfer foundation of the process of the family business intergenerational succession,tacit knowledge is the core competitiveness of family business,whether it can successfully transfer between generations,is the key to whether the family businesss last for ever.At present,the transfer of tacit knowledge in the process of intergenerational transmission of family business mainly focuses on the factors that affect the transfer and the evaluation of the transfer performance,But there is little literature from the intergenerational succession and knowledge transfer process and axle Angle to study the tacit knowledge in the overall transfer mechanism in the process of family business between generations.In this paper,through the application of knowledge transfer theory and resource based view of theoretical analysis,and through the method of questionnaire survey and empirical research,the tacit knowledge transfer under the special background of family business succession,mainly answers the following 3 questions:1.tacit knowledge because it is tacit in the transfer process often don't have certain rules,and in the family business succession under such special circumstances,whether the transfer of tacit knowledge has certain particularity and regularity,what is the mechanism of its transfer,what kind of theoretical framework should be constructed to study.2.From the microscopic point of view,in the succession process of family business,predecessor should transfer which tacit knowledge elements to the successor,what factors will influence in the process,should adopt what kind of way will these elements successfully transfer,which will be transferred to what kind of result,namely how the knowledge transfer performance.3.Based on the resource based view,tacit knowledge is widely considered as one of the main reasons for the core competence of family business,And whether the performance of tacit knowledge will be beneficial to the satisfaction and performance of family business after the succession.In other words,the original tacit knowledge transfer,whether it will play its original value,or even contribute more.According to the research objectives and problems,this paper mainly studies the following contents:1.Constructing the theoretical framework of the tacit knowledge transfer mechanism of the four stages in the intergenerational succession of family business.This part first through the Handler(1990)of the family business model of the four stage and Stavrou(1998)of the family business model of the three stage,the intergenerational succession of family business is divided into the preparation period,the implementation period and the quasi completion period and the completion of the four stages,at the same time,combined with the Nonaka(1995)SECI theory model,the tacit knowledge transfer in the process of intergenerational succession of family business is divided into the initial stage,the implementation stage,the integration stage and the implantation stage,by which builds a theoretical framework for tacit knowledge transfer mechanism of the four stages of succession process in family business,in order to study the various stages of the tacit knowledge transfer mechanism,but also provides a theoretical basis for the empirical research in the paper.2.Exploring the factors affecting the performance of tacit knowledge transfer in the intergenerational succession of family business.This part first divided the knowledge transfer performance into five dimensions:knowledge transfer cost,predecessor's satisfaction of knowledge transfer,successor's satisfaction of knowledge transfer,successor's internalization and innovation of knowledge.The factors that affect the performance of knowledge transfer are divided into four dimensions:the characteristics of tacit knowledge,the predecessor's willingness to transfer knowledge,the willingness of the successor to knowledge transfer and the organizational context,and communication is taken as the intermediary variable.Through empirical research to explore the characteristics of tacit knowledge is having a negative effect on knowledge transfer performance of knowledge transfer,the former will,successor of knowledge transfer willingness and organizational context on whether knowledge transfer has a positive effect and performance,mediating variables communication,whether the result will change.3.Exploring the effect of tacit knowledge transfer performance on the satisfaction of family business succession.This part first divided the satisfaction degree of family business succession into four dimensions:satisfaction,satisfaction,family satisfaction and employee satisfaction,and by the empirical study to explore the impact of tacit knowledge transfer performance on family business succession satisfaction.To answer the question whether the knowledge transfer cost has a negative impact on the satisfaction of family business succession,whether the satisfaction of knowledge transfer between two parties,successor's internalization and innovation of knowledge play an active role in the satisfaction of family business succession.4.Exploring the effect of tacit knowledge transfer performance on the performance of family business succession.This part first divided the performance of family business succession into two dimensions:task performance and contextual performance,through empirical research to explore the impact of tacit knowledge transfer performance on the performance of family business succession,to answer the question whether the knowledge transfer cost has a negative impact on the performance of family business succession,whether the satisfaction of knowledge transfer between two parties,successor's internalization and innovation of knowledge play an active role in the performance of family business succession.Through the above research,the following conclusions are found:1.Through theoretical research,we find that the transfer of tacit knowledge in the process of intergenerational succession of family business is divided into different stages,and the specific tacit knowledge elements and the transfer methods are different in each stage.With the increase of the degree of concealment and specificity,the elements of tacit knowledge in the process of intergenerational succession transfer by class,at the same time,the main mode of transfer of the early performance of the predecessor,the latter is mainly reflected in the successor feedback,but the basic way to communicate,but the basic way is communicate.2.The characteristics of tacit knowledge,tacit knowledge transfer willingness and organizational context will affect the performance of knowledge transfer,well communication will help to improve the performance of knowledge transfer.Tacit knowledge is more obscure,it is more difficult to transfer,But through good communication can reduce the cost of tacit knowledge transfer and improve the degree of internalization of tacit knowledge of successor.Intergenerational transfer willingness will enhance the performance of knowledge transfer,and partly rely on communication to lower the cost of tacit knowledge transfer and enhance the degree of internalization of tacit knowledge of successor.Good organizational context is conducive to improve the performance of knowledge transfer,and is entirely dependent on the communication between the two sides,which will affect the cost of knowledge transfer and the satisfaction of both sides.Good communication can help to improve the performance of knowledge transfer,it is of little use to the successor's knowledge innovation,and it depends only on the willingness of the successor.3.The improvement of tacit knowledge transfer performance in the process of inter generational succession of family business is helpful to improve the satisfaction of family business and the performance of succession.The tacit knowledge innovation of successors is the most important contribution to improve the satisfaction degree of family business,it can be seen that the tacit knowledge innovation of successors is of great importance to the inheritance of family business,in addition to the role of employee satisfaction,the successor's tacit knowledge is helpful to improve the satisfaction and inheritance performance of family business,Both sides of knowledge transfer satisfaction can improve the satisfaction of succession,but the satisfaction of knowledge transfer has little effect on task performance.The cost of knowledge transfer has a negative impact on the satisfaction and performance of succession,which means more investment may not be more productive,if consumed in the transfer process of too many resources,may not be conducive to succession.Finally,the main innovations of this paper are as follows:1.This paper puts forward the theoretical framework of the four phase transfer mechanism of tacit knowledge in the process of intergenerational succession of family business.According to Handler(1990)of the four stages of family business succession model and Stavrou(1998)of the three stage model of family enterprise inheritance,to divide four stages of tacit knowledge transfer in succession process of family business,and the combination of Nonaka(1995)SECI model,the thesis proposes a theoretical framework of transfer mechanism of the four stage the tacit knowledge transfer process succession in family business,paving the way for the following research,also provides some guidance for future studies in this field.2.This paper presents the mechanism of tacit knowledge transfer in the process of intergenerational succession of family business and its influence on the succession of family business.Based on the study of the characteristics and components of tacit knowledge,by grasping the characteristics of family business intergenerational succession of this special period,In the context of intergenerational succession process,analysis of the tacit knowledge transfer mechanism of intergenerational succession of family enterprises in various stages of the succession of each stage,need to transfer factors of tacit knowledge inheritance system to study the factors influence the transfer,transfer and the transfer performance,and further study the knowledge transfer influence on the performance of the inheritance effect of family enterprises,rich family enterprises inheritance and tacit knowledge transfer research field,make up for the problem that the academic circles pay too much attention to the level of tacit knowledge transfer and the lack of the overall transfer mechanism.3.Based on the perspective of knowledge transfer,this paper explains some phenomena in the process of intergenerational succession.In the process of revealing the tacit knowledge transfer mechanism of succession in family business in various stages of succession,we theoretically get some meaningful results,explain why different elements of tacit knowledge in the succession process is divided into stages of transfer,why transfer in different ways,why the tacit knowledge transfer cost with the gradual increase of succession stage,the two sides will transfer the intergenerational why with succession stage gradually increased. |
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