Research on the Knowledge Transfer Mechanism between Headquarters and Project Team in Construction Enterprises

In an era that knowledge has become the key element that boosts the development of the world's economy, construction enterprises must pay attention to the significance of knowledge management. As a typical knowledge-intensive enterprise, construction companies' core knowledge and productivity are concentrated in each project. Therefore, it is significant to know how to build knowledge transfer mechanism between headquarters and project team, to achieve effective knowledge transfer in order to maintain and improve the core competitiveness of construction enterprises. This paper adopts literature review approach and induction to study the knowledge transfer of construction enterprises. Based on the theory of knowledge transfer, we choose construction enterprises' headquarters and project team as the research objects. Firstly, through an extensive review of current literatures, considering the unique features of construction enterprises, analysis of the current status and problems of knowledge transfer in construction companies. Secondly, describes the flow process of knowledge in headquarters and project team, built two-way knowledge transfer model. Finally, discusses and analyzes the conclusion, gives suggestions in order to promote the effect of headquarters-project team knowledge transfer in the construction enterprise.