A summary of the multilevel research on corporate social capital and knowledge transfer

Abstract

Abstract: As innovation management problems involve multilevel phenomena, the corporate social capital in this paper is divided into three levels: external corporate social capital, group social capital and individual social capital. Meanwhile, knowledge transfer is divided into three levels: corporate, group and individual ones. Through reviewing the related research, the influencing factors of knowledge transfer at each level and the impact of social capital at each level on knowledge transferare identified. We examine the relationship between different levels of social capital and knowledge transfer. Based on the above analysis, it is argued that the perspective of multi- and cross-level could promote the future research.

Key words: corporate social capital, social capital, knowledge transfer, multilevel research, summary

CLC Number:

F270

Wei Ying, Wang Yun. A summary of the multilevel research on corporate social capital and knowledge transfer[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(7): 154-160.

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