Behind knowledge transfer
Abstract
Purpose
Through an empirical inquiry into manufacturing joint ventures companies in Vietnam setting, this paper aims to examine the relationships among knowledge sharing and its antecedents such as organisational culture, ethics, and human resources localization.
Design/methodology/approach
An analysis of data returned from a questionnaire survey among middle level managers in these manufacturing joint ventures companies was conducted via analysis of variance and structural equation modelling.
Findings
The study findings display the correspondence between control culture and ethics of justice. Flexibility culture, on the other hand, tends to nurture ethics of care, which in turn positively impact localization of intellectual capital. The influence of intellectual capital localization on knowledge sharing is also discerned.
Originality/value
The study offers insight into the linkage pattern of knowledge sharing and its antecedents, organisational culture, ethics, and human resources localization, in manufacturing joint venture companies in a Vietnam business context.
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Citation
Trong Tuan, L. (2012), "Behind knowledge transfer", Management Decision, Vol. 50 No. 3, pp. 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251741211216232
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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