지식공유-지식창출-기업성과 간 관계에 대한 지식유형의 의미: 중국 진출 글로벌 기업의 본사-해외자회사 사례

This paper examines the different implications of knowledge sharing according to knowledge type in knowledge creation, the performance of MNCs, and foreign subsidiary performance and examines the mediating effect of knowledge creation between them. Then we explored the mediating strength from the Knowledge-Based View (KBV). For this purpose, we conducted a survey of 589 employees of foreign subsidiaries of MNCs that went into China. Except for unfavorable respondents we used 538 to analyze the structural equation model. The key analysis findings are as follows: First, both explicit knowledge sharing and tacit knowledge sharing have a positive effect on knowledge creation, and the effect of explicit knowledge sharing is greater. Second, only the explicit knowledge sharing has a positive effect on the performance of overall MNCs and the tacit knowledge sharing has no effect on it and neither explicit knowledge sharing nor tacit knowledge sharing has on effect on the foreign subsidiary performance. Third, the effect on the performance of overall MNCs and the foreign subsidiary performance of tacit knowledge sharing and explicit knowledge sharing all extend through the mediating effect of knowledge creation. Forth, in the implication of foreign subsidiary performance, the mediating strength of knowledge creation on explicit knowledge sharing is greater than tacit knowledge sharing but in the implication of the performance of overall MNCs, it shows that the mediating strength of knowledge creation on tacit knowledge sharing is greater than explicit knowledge sharing.