The cause of differences in benefits from network embeddedness for enterprises in the alliance

Abstract

Abstract: A LISREL model was tested based on a sample of 220 enterprises to investigate the relationships among organizational culture, external knowledge management capacity, and benefits from network embeddedness. The results indicate that the differences in organizational culture is an important cause of differences in external knowledge retention capacity and absorptive capacity, and external knowledge retention capacity and absorptive capacity in turn affect the degree of benefits from network embeddedness. From the view of increasing firms' benefits from network embeddedness, the suggestions for the contents and methods of firms' organizational culture construction and knowledge management are given.

Key words: strategic alliance, organizational culture, external knowledge retention capacity, absorptive capacity, benefit from network embeddedness

CLC Number:

F270

Li Shuncai, Li Wei, Nie Ming. The cause of differences in benefits from network embeddedness for enterprises in the alliance[J]. Science Research Management, 2011, 32(6): 91-99.

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