The study on influencing factors of knowledge transfer among cluster enterprises: Based on the perspective of distance contexts

This paper divides the distance context factors which affect knowledge transfer performance among cluster enterprises into three aspects,there are relationship distance,organization distance and knowledge distance. then it discusses the effects on knowledge transfer in industrial cluster enterprises by each distance contexts. and then through the questionnaire survey and sample data statistics analysis,the paper makes an empirical verification. the result shows that the relationship and organization distance have significant and positive effect on knowledge transfer in cluster enterprises,while the knowledge distance not only has significant and positive effect,but also negative effect,but not significant. finally,the paper puts forwards some related suggestions to improve the performance of knowledge transfer in industrial cluster enterprises under the distance context. © 2013 pakistan journal of statistics.