An Empirical Study on the Context of Tacit Knowledge Transfer in Knowledge Alliances

On the basis of reviewing on the existing literatures about knowledge transfer, this paper states that the context factors proposed in prior research do not apply for the situation of the tacit knowledge transfer in knowledge alliances very well. And basing on an empirical research, tacit knowledge transfer context in knowledge alliance are obtained and then a tacit knowledge transfer model in knowledge alliance is presented in order to propose some concrete strategies to promote the tacit knowledge transfer in knowledge alliances