Culture and Knowledge Transfe: Theoretical Considerations

Knowledge and culture are indissolubly linked together in organizations. Considerable evidence supports the impor-tance of culture in the success or failure of knowledge management. Then, the effectiveness of knowledge transfer needs both cultural understanding and new considerations in the knowledge transfer of intercultural organizations. This pa-per identifies the influence of different dimensions of culture on knowledge transfer in different types of knowledge. Based on a topology that classified national culture into four dimensions provided by [12,13], power distance and indi-vidualism/collectivism are chosen as the representatives of national culture in this work and discuss the effect of na-tional culture on knowledge transfer. The aim of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework for knowledge trans-fer processes based on differences in national culture for future research