Submitted by Ronaldo Gomes Dultra de Lima (ronaldo.lima@gvmail.br) on 2015-04-14T14:52:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Ronaldo_Dultra-de-Lima_(Versao_Final).pdf: 3656263 bytes, checksum: 7c89f0263113ebef5aa6650ec3026603 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Pamela Beltran Tonsa (pamela.tonsa@fgv.br) on 2015-04-14T16:07:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Ronaldo_Dultra-de-Lima_(Versao_Final).pdf: 3656263 bytes, checksum: 7c89f0263113ebef5aa6650ec3026603 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T18:06:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Ronaldo_Dultra-de-Lima_(Versao_Final).pdf: 3656263 bytes, checksum: 7c89f0263113ebef5aa6650ec3026603 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-11 / The literature has emphasized that absorptive capacity (AC) leads to performance, but in projects its influences still unclear. Additionally, the project success is not well understood by the literature, and AC can be an important mechanism to explain it. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of absorptive capacity on project performance in the construction industry of São Paulo State. We study this influence through potential and realized absorptive capacity proposed by Zahra and George (2002). For achieving this goal, we use a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. The qualitative research is based on 15 interviews with project managers in different sectors to understand the main constructs and support the next quantitative phase. The content analysis was the technique used to analyze those interviews. In quantitative phase through a survey questionnaire, we collected 157 responses in the construction sector with project managers. The confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical linear regression were the techniques used to assess the data. Our findings suggest that the realized absorptive capacity has a positive influence on performance, but potential absorptive capacity and the interactions effect have no influence on performance. Moreover, the planning and monitoring have a positive impact on budget and schedule, and customer satisfaction while risk coping capacity has a positive impact on business success. In academics terms, this research enables a better understanding of the importance of absorptive capacity in the construction industry and it confirms that knowledge application in processes and routines enhances performance. For management, the absorptive capacity enables the improvements of internal capabilities reflected in the increased project management efficiency. Indeed, when a company manages project practices efficiently it enhances business and project performance; however, it needs initially to improve its internal abilities to enrich processes and routines through relevant knowledge. / A literatura tem enfatizado que a capacidade de absorção (AC) leva ao desempenho, porém, na área de projetos sua influência ainda não está claramente estabelecida. Além disso, o sucesso de projeto também não é bem entendido pela literatura, e AC pode ser um dos mecanismos para explicá-lo. Portanto, o objetivo deste estudo é investigar o efeito da capacidade de absorção no desempenho do projeto na indústria de construção civil do Estado de São Paulo. Estudamos essa influência por meio das capacidades de absorção potencial e realizada propostas por Zahra and George (2002). Para atingir esse objetivo, usamos uma combinação de pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa. A pesquisa qualitativa está baseada em 15 entrevistas com gerentes de projeto em diferentes setores visando entender os principais construtos e apoiar a fase quantitativa. A análise de conteúdo foi a técnica utilizada para analisar essas entrevistas. Já na fase quantitativa, realizada através de questionário eletrônico, foram coletadas 157 respostas junto aos gerentes de projeto no setor de construção civil. As técnicas utilizadas para analisar os dados foram a análise fatorial confirmatória e regressão linear hierárquica. Nossos resultados sugerem que a capacidade de absorção realizada tem relacionamento positivo com desempenho, porém, a capacidade de absorção potencial e o efeito de suas interações não têm qualquer influência sobre o mesmo. Além disso, o planejamento e monitoramento têm impacto positivo no orçamento e cronograma, e satisfação do cliente, enquanto que a capacidade de ação sobre riscos tem influência positiva sobre o sucesso do negócio. Em termos acadêmicos, esta pesquisa permite melhorar a compreensão da importância da capacidade de absorção na indústria da construção civil e confirma que a aplicação de conhecimentos em rotinas e processos melhoram o desempenho. Para a gestão, a capacidade de absorção possibilita que melhorias das capacidades internas reflitam no aumento da eficiência de gerenciamento de projetos. Realmente, quando a empresa gerencia suas práticas de projeto eficientemente melhora o desempenho do negócio e dos projetos. No entanto, ela precisa inicialmente melhorar suas capacidades internas visando purificar as rotinas e processos através de conhecimentos que são relevantes.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:50:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6192.pdf: 2977985 bytes, checksum: a581f8afdd14f56caea568b8b83a9e8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-17 / The area of Strategic Planning seeks to understand how the company creates and maintains competitive advantage, considering factors external and internal constraints. Among these, the lines of thought related to the Resource Based View, the Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning, there are the Dynamic Capabilities, necessary for enterprises to integrate, build and reconfigure internal and external competencies to respond quickly to environmental changes: absorptive capacity related to knowledge; adaptive capacity, organizational learning; and innovation capacity related to innovation and market advantage. Still under development, this recent approach to strategic management is criticized for its weakness in guiding the development and management of capacity and organizational resources. This study proposes that the integration of knowledge management, generating absorptive capacity and organizational learning, generating adaptive capacity, can foster innovation and organizational performance, and can promote indirectly, mediated by innovation, superior organizational performance generated directly, characterizing the generation of innovation capacity; and that if this performance is superior to that of competitors, featuring competitive advantage. This argument has been translated into a model of hypotheses, to contribute to the research model of dynamic capabilities developed by Wang and Ahmed (2007) by detailing how dynamic capabilities can relate and generate differential performance and innovativeness. Results of the questionnaire developed and applied to CEOs of four plants manufacturing Mato Grosso biodiesel, and a national unit of a global corporation in the auto parts industry recognized for its innovativeness and its performance was compared qualitatively to illustrate the model proposed. The results of this study reinforced the proposition and hypotheses examined in a preliminary way. From the viewpoint of view of dynamic capabilities were related the effects of integration of knowledge management and organizational learning in innovation and organizational performance , and indicated how this integration can generate differential organizational performance and innovativeness. / A área de Planejamento Estratégico procura compreender como a empresa gera e mantém vantagem competitiva, considerando fatores condicionantes externos e internos. Dentre estes, nas linhas de pensamento relacionadas à Visão Baseada em Recursos, à Gestão de Conhecimento e à Aprendizagem Organizacional, destacam-se as Capacidades Dinâmicas, necessárias para que as empresas integrem, construam e reconfigurem competências internas e externas para responder rapidamente a mudanças ambientais: capacidade absortiva, relacionada ao conhecimento; capacidade adaptativa, relacionada à aprendizagem; e a capacidade de inovação, relacionada à inovação e à vantagem de mercado. Ainda em desenvolvimento, esta recente abordagem da gestão estratégica é criticada por sua fragilidade em orientar o desenvolvimento e a gestão das capacidades e dos recursos organizacionais. Neste estudo se propõe que a integração da gestão do conhecimento, geradora da capacidade absortiva, e da aprendizagem organizacional, geradora da capacidade adaptativa, pode favorecer a inovação e o desempenho organizacional, e pode promover indiretamente, mediada pela inovação, desempenho organizacional superior ao gerado diretamente, caracterizando a geração da capacidade de inovação; e que se este desempenho for superior ao dos concorrentes, caracteriza a vantagem competitiva. Este argumento foi traduzido em um modelo de hipóteses, visando contribuir com o modelo de pesquisa das capacidades dinâmicas elaborado por Wang e Ahmed (2007) por meio do detalhamento de como as capacidades dinâmicas podem se relacionar e gerar diferenciais de desempenho e a capacidade de inovação. Resultados do questionário desenvolvido e aplicado a CEOs de quatro usinas de fabricação de biodiesel mato-grossenses, e de uma unidade nacional de uma corporação globalizada do setor de autopeças reconhecida por sua capacidade de inovação e por seu desempenho, foram comparados qualitativamente para ilustrar o modelo proposto. Os resultados reforçaram a proposição deste estudo e as hipóteses analisadas de forma preliminar. Sob a ótica da visão das capacidades dinâmicas, foram relacionados os efeitos da integração da gestão do conhecimento e da aprendizagem organizacional na inovação e no desempenho organizacional, e indicado como esta integração pode gerar diferenciais de desempenho organizacional e a capacidade de inovação.

The environment and rapid technological changes have led to a change in business management. In the current context, absorptive capacity, understood as the ability to acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit external knowledge is crucial to innovation capacity, and to the development and sustainability of competitive advantage. This research analyzes how management of technological assets; top management support on technology; technological skills; and technological distinctive competencies are positively related to absorptive capacity; and how they affect organizational performance. / El entorno y los rápidos cambios tecnológicos han provocado un cambio en la gestión empresarial. En el contexto actual, la capacidad de absorción, entendida como la habilidad para adquirir, asimilar, transformar y explotar el conocimientoexterno es crucial para la capacidad de innovación, y el desarrollo y sustento de ventajas competitivas. Esta investigación analiza cómo la gestión de las variables tecnológicas, el apoyo de la dirección a la tecnología, habilidades tecnológicas y competencias distintivas tecnológicas se relacionan positivamente con la capacidad de absorción, y cómo estas influyen en el desempeño organizativo. / O atual ambiente e as rápidas mudanças tecnológicas levaram a uma mudança na gestão empresarial. No presente contexto, a capacidade de absorção, entendida como a capacidade de adquirir, assimilar, transformar e explorar o conhecimento externo é crucial para a capacidade de inovação e o desenvolvimento e sustentação da vantagem competitiva. Esta pesquisa analisa a forma como a gestão das variáveis tecnológicas, o apoio da alta administração na tecnologia, os conhecimentos tecnológicos e as competências distintivas tecnológicas estão positivamente relacionadas com a capacidade de absorção, e como elas influenciam o desempenho organizacional.

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Kundenorientierung ist ein maßgeblicher Erfolgsfaktor für Unternehmen. Entscheidenden Einfluss hierauf besitzen Mitarbeiter mit Kunden-Kontakt, die sich in Bedürfnisse der Kunden einfühlen können und die ihr Wissen mit anderen Mitarbeitern im Unternehmen teilen. In einem schrittweisen und systematischen Vorgehen werden in dieser Arbeit betriebswirtschaftliche und neurowissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse zusammengeführt und hierdurch dargelegt, welche Faktoren im Unternehmen diese Gehirnleistung des Einfühlens begünstigen. Die Mehr-Ebenen-Analyse erfolgt ausgehend von der Unternehmensebene, insbesondere Phänomenen der Unternehmenskultur, über die Ebene der Beziehungen zwischen Kunden und Mitarbeitern bis hin zur Ebene des sozialen Gehirns.

As a result of the need for the construction industry to become more and more efficient, this sets new requirements for an increased digitalization of the construction industry as a whole. As consultants are considered a crucial role in the early stages of construction projects, this requires a deeper understanding of the role of consultants in the early stages of construction projects and their further development. Previous studies indicate that increased knowledge and skills can be seen as barriers to further development, mainly in the industry but also in most organizations. This study aims to investigate the barriers that are considered to exist in the Swedish construction industry for increased use of building information modeling (BIM), by highlighting the barriers' links to the HVAC consultant's work and the implementation of knowledge management (KM). This has resulted in the questions 1) What are the barriers to a developed use of BIM in the HVAC industry? and 2) How can KM enable a developed use of BIM in the HVAC industry? The study's theoretical and empirical data collection has consisted of a systematic literature study and semi-structured interviews with plumbing consultants, a supplier, an industry organization and a plumbing expert. The barriers that inhibit a developed use of BIM and adaptation of KM are knowledge and skills, political commitment, unified view of BIM, client's attitude towards BIM, absorptive capacity (ACAP) and culture. The HVAC contractor needs to adapt KM and improve its ACAP in order to increase the level of knowledge within the organization and maintain competitiveness in the market. Adaptation of KM at the HVAC contractor also contributes to an increased level of knowledge in the construction industry as ACAP enables internal and external knowledge sharing. To enable an adaptation of KM, there is a need for a culture that promotes collaboration, trust, learning and the development of BIM in the industry. This requires a cultural change and an active leadership to create common norms, an acceptance of new solutions, a call for development, values that encourage knowledge sharing, a strategy for training, education and mentoring, and a call for daring to try new solutions. / Som en följd av att byggbranschen behöver bli allt mer effektiviserad, ställs nya krav för en ökad digitalisering av byggbranschen i sin helhet. Då konsulter innehar en avgörande roll inom byggprojektets tidigare skeden, krävs en djupare förståelse kring konsultens roll inom de tidigare skeden av byggprojekt samt deras fortsatta utveckling kartläggs. Tidigare studier indikerar att ökad kunskap och kompetens kan ses som barriärer för en fortsatt utveckling, främst inom branschen men även hos merparten av organisationerna. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka de barriärer som finns inom den svenska byggbranschen för ökad användning av building information modelling (BIM), genom att synliggöra barriärernas kopplingar till VVS-konsultens arbete och implementeringen av knowledge management (KM). Detta har resulterat i frågeställningarna 1) Vilka barriärer finns mot en utvecklad användning av BIM i byggbranschen? och 2) Hur kan VVS-konsulten applicera KM för en utvecklad användning av BIM i byggbranschen? Studiens teoretiska- och empiriska datainsamling har bestått av en systematisk litteraturstudie samt semistrukturerade intervjuer. De barriärer som hämmar en utvecklad användning av BIM samt adaptering av KM är kunskap och kompetens, politiskt engagemang, enhetlig syn på BIM, klientens inställning till BIM, absorptionsförmåga (ACAP) och kultur. VVS-konsulten behöver adaptera KM samt förbättra sin ACAP för att höja kunskapsnivån internt inom organisationen samt behålla konkurrenskraft på marknaden. Adaptering av KM hos VVS-konsulten bidrar även till en förhöjd kunskapsnivå inom byggbranschen då ACAP möjliggör för intern samt extern kunskapsdelning. För att möjliggöra en adaptering av KM finns ett behov av en kultur som främjar samarbete, förtroende, lärande samt en utveckling av BIM inom branschen. Därav ställs kravet på en kulturell förändring och ett aktivt ledarskap för att skapa gemensamma normer, en acceptans för nya lösningar, en uppmaning till utveckling, värderingar som uppmuntrar kunskapsdelning, en strategi för träning, utbildning och mentorskap samt en uppmaning till att våga testa nya lösningar.

Increasingly, firms like Patagonia, IKEA, General Mills, or Barilla actively seek to understand their interdependence with nature, build innovative capabilities, and generate more radical shifts toward sustainability. This creates exciting opportunities to investigate exactly how these companies obtain knowledge about ecosystem dynamics and processes and how they use it both to cope with climate change or declining ecosystem resilience and contribute to maintain or even strengthen ecosystems. Despite the considerable potential to advance research on organizational strategy and corporate sustainability, the notion of ‘ecological knowledge’ has yet to enter the scholarly work of management and business organization in a substantive manner. At present, we know almost nothing about the processes, mechanisms, and routines that enable an organization to, first, recognize the value of such knowledge and to, then, systematically access, co-create, integrate and utilize such knowledge into its broader knowledge and resource base. My dissertation attempts to fill this gap and opens up new directions for research on the role of ecological knowledge in corporate sustainability management. More specifically, I ask: What are the processes through which organizations can effectively access, co-create, integrate and utilize ecological knowledge with current organizational knowledge and strategies? I link strategic and organization-focused concepts of knowledge and the perspective of absorptive capacity with the notion of ecological knowledge from modern ecology, especially from the social-ecological systems literature, to shed light on the processes through which organizations can effectively access, co-create, integrate and utilize new ecological knowledge into their operational and strategic decision making. I adopt a qualitative, emergent, and inductive strategy drawing on a grounded research approach to gain an in-depth, cross-validated, and processual understanding of the mechanisms through which organizations can promote and enhance ecosystem health including biodiversity. I undertook my study on the organic agriculture sector, a sub-sector of the modern agriculture and agri-food industry. I collected data from nineteen agriculture and agri-food organizations based in British Columbia (BC), the westernmost province of Canada, using multiple data sources including in-depth interviews, observations, company documents, reports, newspaper articles and field reports. Based on my analysis, I develop a grounded theory about the processes through which organizations can successfully deepen their ecological knowledge and then utilize this knowledge to more sustainably manage their relationships with nature and contribute to protecting or even strengthening ecosystem functionality. With my dissertation, I address the call from scholars in Organization and the Natural Environment (ONE) and Corporate Sustainability for more transdisciplinary cross-fertilization as an essential approach to building compelling new theory and models in the field. First, my analysis offers a more fine-grained understanding of the types, components, dimensions, and characteristics of ecological knowledge. Second, my analysis uncovers a micro-level account of the processes by which individuals as critical actors identify, evaluate and make sense of the organization-environment interrelationships across various scales of time and space. I also identify the multiple personal characteristics of individual actors that influence these processes in various stages and circumstances. Third, my study offers insights into the factors that can strengthen an organization’s relational capacity to build mutual trust and collaboration with holders of ecological knowledge. Fourth, it sheds light on how firms engage with and motivate multiple community stakeholders in building a collaborative process of mutual learning, knowledge sharing, and knowledge co-creation to build joint capacity for coping successfully with many complex challenges of sustainability, thus contributing to the wellbeing of the entire social-ecological system. Collectively, these contributions provide a deeper and more holistic understanding of the processes of acquiring and co-creating ecological knowledge that can allow an organization to transition successfully towards greater ecological sustainability. My dissertation also offers numerous practically relevant insights for businesses facing the challenges of economic, social and environmental sustainability, as well as specific guidance on how companies can protect or enhance their supply of natural capital and contribute toward greater stability of the broader human-nature systems in which they are embedded. / Graduate / 2023-11-15

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在持續創新的需求下，跨公司合作已成為企業整合應用知識，創新求變的重要策略。本文融合知識基礎觀點和組織學習觀點，指出跨公司合作所帶來的組織創新績效，係因合作夥伴知識整合的結果。因此研究的目的除了要實證知識整合與組織創新績效的關係外，主要在發展一個理論架構，說明影響跨公司合作創新的因素，及這些因素之間的關係。在研究設計上，本文係以我國高科技產業、資訊服務業及金融服務業做為問卷調查的對象，將所收集的資料透過探索性分析與驗證性分析兩階段檢定本文所提出之量測模式與研究假說，結果得到下列結論： 1. 跨公司合作為企業所帶來的創新績效，可以用知識整合的觀點來解釋，當企業知識整合能力越好，跨公司合作創新績效會越好。 2. 知識整合能力受到企業知識吸收能力的影響，吸收能力係企業先前知識的蓄積量，以及應用這些知識的能力之綜合。 3. 知識整合能力亦受到企業與夥伴合作的能力之影響，合作能力包括企業與夥伴建立信任關係，以及溝通、協調的能力。 4. 知識特質受知識整合機制的中介而影響創新績效，跨公司合作所帶來組織的創新績效，主要不受合作所牽涉知識之外顯╱內隱與複雜性特質的影響，必須應知識特質的不同而採取適當的整合機制後，才能因知識整合而產生創新績效。 5. 吸收能力、合作能力與知識整合機制是相互影響的因素，三者形成企業知識整合創新能力的主要構面，是企業追求跨公司合作創新必須重視的要素。 / Inter-firm collaboration has been an important strategy for firms to integrate and apply knowledge among their partners in order to obtain innovation performance under uncertainty circumstances. This study combining the knowledge based view and the organizational learning perspective, considers the innovation performance improvement as the result of knowledge integration. Besides examining the relation between innovation performance and knowledge integration, the purpose of this study is to find the factors influencing inter-firm collaboration performance and the relationships among these factors. The data collecting from Taiwan’s high-tech, information service and finance industry were used in the exploratory and confirmatory phases to evaluate the instruments and test the hypotheses. The conclusions are listed as below: 1. The innovation performance gaining from inter-firm collaboration can be considered as the result of knowledge integration. While the knowledge integration capability of a firm is better, the firm’s innovation performance in inter-firm collaborations will be better too. 2. The knowledge integration capability of a firm is influenced by the absorptive capacity of the firm. And the firm’s absorptive capacity derives from the firm’s prior knowledge accumulation and the capability to apply their knowledge. 3. The knowledge integration capability of a firm is also influenced by their cooperative competency. The cooperative competency is composed of three interrelated facets: trust, communication and coordination. 4. Firm’s innovation performance in an inter-firm collaboration doesn’t directly influenced by the explicit/tacit and complexity characteristics of the knowledge which appeared in the collaboration. To produce innovation performance, knowledge with different characteristics should be integrated by suitable integration mechanisms. 5. Absorptive capacity, corporative competency and knowledge integration mechanism construct firm’s “knowledge integration and innovation capability”, which is important to firm’s innovation performance in inter-firm collaborations.

知識移轉隨著知識經濟時代的來臨，成為多國企業管理知識優勢的重要議題。本研究首要目的是針對派外人員是知識移轉重要媒介的前題，探討台灣企業不同派外人員特徵與子公司特性，如何有效提昇子公司知識移轉績效的部分；其次，本研究採用資源基礎理論的觀點，探討不同的網絡關係，以及知識特性與知識移轉績效之關係。 在研究方法方面，本研究係以個案研究為輔，大樣本問卷調查為主。其中，個案研究採用4家台灣多國企業為研究對象，針對人力資源部門與高階主管進行半結構化的訪談。同時，收集多重次級資料來源，包括研究報告、報章雜誌、公司網站等，以進行個案研究的分析。問卷調查方式所收集的有效樣本為105家廠商（包含人力資源主管與高階主管），資料經由量化分析以驗證研究假設。 研究結果顯示，第一部份主效果方面，（1）當母公司移轉知識給子公司時，子公司吸納能力與動機愈高以及價值活動愈完整，對子公司的知識移轉績效正向影響愈大。（2）本研究發現派外人員服務年資愈資深，對子公司的知識移轉績效正向影響愈大。 第二部份干擾效果方面，（1）在網絡關係為強連結的情況下，子公司「吸納能力與動機」愈高，與「價值活動」愈完整，以及派外人員「服務年資」愈資深，對子公司的知識移轉績效正向影響愈大。（2）在知識特性為外顯知識的情況下，子公司「吸納能力與動機」愈高，與「價值活動」愈完整，以及派外人員「服務年資」愈資深，對子公司的知識移轉績效正向影響愈大。（3）在知識特性為特定知識的情況下，子公司「吸納能力與動機」愈高以及「價值活動」愈完整，對子公司的知識移轉績效正向影響愈大。 上述實證研究所建構的研究模型，證實派外人員在知識移轉過程中扮演重要媒介角色，對多國企業推動母子公司間知識移轉具有指引價值。未來可供後續研究進行大樣本實證，而模型中各項構念與研究變項之因果關係，有待後續研究更進一步的驗證，以發展更具解釋的跨國知識移轉相關理論。 / With the coming of knowledge transfer in knowledge the economic age, it has becomes a significant issue in MNC’s management of knowledge advantage. The first aim of this study is to focus on the assumption of the crucial vehicle of expatriates in knowledge transfer. It discusses the characteristics of expatriates Taiwanese enterprises and subsidiaries, and how effectively they improve the subsidiary’s knowledge transfer performance. Secondly, this study adopts the perspective of a resource-based view, exploring the relationships between different networks, knowledge attributes and knowledge transfer performance. In terms of the research methods, this study gives priority to large samples questionnaire surveys, while case studies are given second place. Among them, case studies of four Taiwanese multinational corporations are used as research objects, focusing on semi-structured interviews of Human Resource Department executives along with top managers. Additionally, various sources of secondary data have been collected, including research reports, newspapers, magazines and corporate websites, in order to process the analysis of the case studies. The valid samples from the collection surveys are 105 firms (including human resource executives and top managers). The data is verified in relation to the research hypothesis using quantitative analysis. The results of this study firstly reveal two main effects: (1) When transferring knowledge from company headquarters to subsidiaries, the higher and more complete the value activities of absorptive capacity and motivation of the subsidiaries, the stronger the positive effects will be on the subsidiaries’ knowledge transfer performance. (2) This study also indicates that the longer an expatriate’s tenure is, the more powerful the positive effect on the subsidiaries’ knowledge transfer performance will be. The second finding is two moderating effects: (1) in terms of the strength of ties of the “networks”, the higher the “absorptive capacity and motivation” of subsidiaries, the more complete the “value activities”, and the longer the “expatriates’ tenure” are, the stronger the positive effects will be on the subsidiaries’ knowledge transfer performance. (2) When knowledge attribute is considered as “explicit knowledge”, the higher the “absorptive capacity and motivation” of subsidiaries, the more complete the “value activities”, and the longer the “expatriates’ tenure ” are, the stronger the positive effects will be on the subsidiaries’ knowledge transfer performance. (3) When knowledge attribute is considered as “specific knowledge”, the higher the “absorptive capacity and motivation” of subsidiaries and the more complete the “value activities” are, the stronger the positive effects will be on the subsidiaries’ knowledge transfer performance. According to the above research model based on empirical research, it testifies that expatriates play a significant role in the process of knowledge transfer, and thus qualify as a valuable indicator for MNC’s performing knowledge transfer between parent and subsidiary companies. In the future, this study offers further large samples for empirical research. However, the causal relationship between every construct and research variable requires time for further examination in order to develop a more persuasive correlational theory of cross-border knowledge transfer.