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Game Analysis of Knowledge Transfer of Product Innovation Team in Multinational Corporations

Received: 29 August 2017     Accepted: 9 September 2017     Published: 29 September 2017
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Abstract

Product innovation team is a knowledge-intensive organization, which can integrate the dominant resources effectively in order to creative competive advantage for multinational corporations. Knowledge sharing is the key to success for product innovation team. This paper proposes a game theoric model that can indicate team members’ collaboration on a product innovation through knowledge sharing. In addition, knowledge-sharing activities in three types of product innovation team are analyzed. The proposed model indentifies conditions that lead to collaboration among team members in the product innovation team, which maximizes product performance. The insights obtained from the model and possible implications in product innovation team are discussed.

Published in Journal of Human Resource Management (Volume 5, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.jhrm.20170504.12
Page(s) 63-69
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Keywords

Knowledge Sharing, Product Innovation Team, Game Theory, Incentive Mechanism

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