Knowledge Transfer within the Organization for the Consideration of Disseminative Capacity, Absorptive Capacity and Individuals’ Benefits

Na Liu, Jiangning Wu and Zhaoguo Xuan Institute of Systems Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract In the study, a conceptual model for knowledge transfer is proposed which focuses on the disseminative capacity, absorptive capacity, and benefits of actors including the knowledge sender and knowledge recipient when they exchange knowledge with each other. To deeply investigate the individuals’ behavior, a network model is constructed to examine how the social benefits like status and respect stimulate the knowledge disseminative will or the knowledge absorptive will of actors during the knowledge transfer processes. The simulation results show that the incentive mechanism for individuals can promote the disseminative capacity of knowledge senders, accelerate the processes of knowledge transfer and improve the knowledge stock of the organization to a certain extent.