Impact of Repatriate’s Knowledge Transfer on Enterprise Performance: The Mediating Effect of Ambidexterity Innovation

Wang Juanru () and Li Baolin ()
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Wang Juanru: School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an710072, China
Li Baolin: School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an710072, China

Journal of Systems Science and Information, 2016, vol. 4, issue 1, 56-67

Abstract: This paper proposes that repatriate’s knowledge transfer is composed of two dimensions: Explicit knowledge transfer and tacit knowledge transfer. The influencing of repatriate’s knowledge transfer on enterprise performance is discussed, and the mediating role of ambidexterity innovation in the above relationships is analyzed. Then, relative assumptions are put forward, and theoretical model is established. Lastly, 156 multinational corporations are selected as study object, and data are collected, bias analysis, descriptive statistic analysis and hierarchical regression analysis are made. The conclusions are got, which are explicit knowledge transfer and tacit knowledge transfer have significant positive effect on exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation, respectively; and explicit knowledge transfer has more effect on exploitative innovation, while tacit knowledge transfer has more effect on exploratory innovation. The findings also indicate that exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation play partial mediation effect on the relationship between explicit knowledge transfer, tacit knowledge transfer and enterprise performance.

Keywords: repatriate; knowledge transfer; enterprise performance; ambidexterity innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/JSSI-2016-0056

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