关键词: 中国跨国公司, 知识转移, 制度距离, 国际经验, 社会资本, Chinese multinational company, knowledge transfer, institutional distance, international experience, social capital

Abstract: Based on the institutional distance divided into three dimensions, with 178 Chinese multinational companies as the research object, this paper analyzes the influence of regulative distance, normative distance and cognitive distance on knowledge transfer of the multinational company using hierarchical regression analysis; and further examines the moderating effect of international experience and social capital on the relationship between institutional distance and knowledge transfer. The result shows that the farther of regulative distance, normative distance or cognitive distance, the more difficult for the multinational company to transfer knowledge between its headquarter and branches. As distance-bridging variable the international experience weakens the influence of regulative distance, normative distance and cognitive distance on knowledge transfer. The social capital weakens the influence of regulative distance on knowledge transfer. The result can provide scientific and reasonable theory to guide the Chinese multinational company with low degree of internationalization how to enhance the knowledge transfer effect under institutional distance, and provides the evidences from China on this topic for the international academic community.