On how the Knowledge Network Reduces Knowledge Transaction Cost: From the Prospect of Transaction Cost Theory

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Nowadays more and more organizations choose to set up knowledge networks to share knowledge or create new knowledge. Why organizations choose the way of setting up knowledge networks, a kind of inter-firm organization, instead of creating the knowledge by themselves or marketing transactions to obtain the needed knowledge is that the knowledge network can create and obtain new knowledge at the cost less than that of self-creation and market transactions. This article studies how the knowledge network can reduce the internal and inter-organizational knowledge transaction cost.

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