文摘
The effective transfer of knowledge, the fundamental source of an enterprise's competitive advantage, between the multinational company's internal parent firm and its overseas subsidiaries, is crucial to the multinational company's invincibility in the increasingly fierce global competition. The research on the multinational company internal knowledge transfer has become an important branch in the research field of multinational companies in the academic circle. Through clarifying the development vein of the theories of knowledge transfer within multinational company, this article sums up the four theory schools, namely the multinational company existing mechanism school, and the behaviour school, the influence factor school as well as the tool school of knowledge transfer within multinational company, and comments on each of the schools.
