The research and expectation of the influence factors in Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer in the enterprise knowledge management is an important link,and it is also an effective way to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.This paper reviews and analyzes the relative studies about the definition of knowledge transfer and makes a synthesis according to the four factors:Knowledge Characteristics;the subject of knowledge transfer;the media of knowledge transfer and the context of knowledge transfer.Based on that,the paper puts forward the notion that the research on the factors can be discussed in two aspects:the inside of the organization and the outside of the organization.At last,further research directions of knowledge transfer are also presented.