Collaborative Research: Retaining organizational knowledge in connective and communal transactive

这是一项关于群体和组织如何通过Transactive Memory(TM)系统保留和共享组织知识的跨文化研究。TM系统是知识保留系统，重点不是知识本身，而是关于知识驻留在哪里的知识。这项研究在三个关键方面具有原创性。首先，它通过研究人类TM系统(即，一对一的人类连接)和技术TM系统(即，一对多的社区、网络使能系统)之间的相互作用，弥合了组织行为和信息系统之间的鸿沟。其次，它考察了人的影响如何在多个层面上影响TM系统的发展和功能：在个人之间、在群体之间以及在个人和群体的整个网络中。第三，考察了连接性和公共性TM系统在不同国家的发展和使用情况：美国和中国。除了测试与TM相关的理论，这项研究的结果应该有助于团队、他们的经理、他们的组织和他们的合作伙伴网络更好地管理关键的知识资源，包括关于如何最好地处理全球化经济中的文化差异的见解。

This is a cross-cultural study of how groups and organizations retain and share organizational knowledge via transactive memory (TM) systems. TM systems are knowledge retention systems focused not on knowledge per se but on knowledge about where knowledge resides. The study is original in three key ways. First, it bridges the divide between organizational behavior and information systems by investigating the interplay between human TM systems (i.e., one-to-one human connections) and technological TM systems (i.e., one-to-many communal, cyberenabled systems). Second, it examines how human affect influences the development and functioning of TM systems at multiple levels: between individuals, among groups and throughout networks of individuals and groups. Third, it examines the development and usage of connective and communal TM systems in different nations: US and China. In addition to testing theories related to TM, the results of this research should help teams, their managers, their organizations, and their networks of partners to better manage crucial knowledge resources, including insights about how best to deal with cultural differences in a globalizing economy.