Simulate the effect of organization structure on knowledge transfer

Here we studied the topological structures of organization networks, which can possibly account for the different performances of intraorganizational knowledge transfer. By applying the complexity theory, we construct two types of networks which are hierarchy and scale-free networks, and one-layer perceptron model was used to simulate the knowledge transfer from a particularly remarkable member to others. The virtual experiment results indicate that the topology of organization structure exactly has an influence on knowledge transfer, the scale-free structure is more effective in knowledge transfer than that in hierarchy structure under the equal willingness level of the remarkable member. The performance of knowledge transfer is also related to the willingness of the remarkable member to transfer knowledge, and the willingness of the remarkable member in hierarchical model has more important influence than that in scale-free model.