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J. Service Science Management, 2010, 3: 159-164 doi:10.4236/jssm.2010.31020 Published Online March 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jssm) Culture and Knowledge Transfe: Theoretical Considerations Jing Liu School of Economics and Management, Northwest University of Politics and Law, Xi’an, China. Email: ljta.0417@ Received October 30st, 2009; revised December 19th, 2009; accepted January 27th, 2010. ABSTRACT 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. Keywords : Knowledge, Knowledge Types, Knowledge Transfer, Culture, Cultural Dimensions 1. Introduction tion and knowledge management research and develop- ment”. Recently, a few researchers have found empirical There are diverging opinions the question of whether evidence that differences in national culture do affect culture might influence knowledge management. Refer- knowledge sharing [7,8]. ence [1] beli