Impact of knowledge transfer on innovative performance of the alliance enterprises by taking strategic flexibility as a mediating factor

Abstract

Abstract: To uncover how knowledge transfer affects innovative performance of the alliance enterprise, this paper puts forward a series of hypotheses among knowledge transfer, strategic flexibility and innovative performance of the alliance enterprise by reviewing relevant documentations. 301 valid questionnaires conducted tothe alliance enterprises in North China (e.g. Tianjin, Shanxi) were analyzed by taking structural equation model based on the maximum likelihood estimation. The results of this study show that knowledge transfer can significantly improve different strategic flexibility (resource flexibility and capability flexibility); the innovative performance of the alliance enterprises is positively affected by capability flexibility but negatively affected by resource flexibility. Interestingly, knowledge transfer can still positively affect the innovative performance of the alliance enterprises although it is distracted by the negative conduction of resource flexibility. This study promotes the correlation theory research and offers a new guidance for the innovation practice of the alliance enterprises.

Key words: knowledge transfer, alliance enterprise, strategic flexibility, innovative performance

CLC Number:

F272.91

Zhang Hongbing. Impact of knowledge transfer on innovative performance of the alliance enterprises by taking strategic flexibility as a mediating factor[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(7): 1-9.

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