Management Review ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 125-134.

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An Empirical Research on the Influence of Inter-organizational Knowledge Sharing and Technology Learning on Production Performance of Energy Enterprises——Based on “Hall for Work Shop of Metasynthetic Engineering”

Wang Shubin1,3, Lu Quanying2, Qiao Han2   

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an 710061;
    2. School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190;
    3. Western Institute of Digital Economy, Xi'an 710121
  • Received:2019-08-12 Online:2020-12-28 Published:2020-12-30

Abstract: Unconventional oil and gas development is a complex and systematic project with multi-subject participation and multi-engineering sequence. Relying on the development of modern digital oilfield technology and knowledge sharing among horizontal organizations of enterprises in the whole process of energy development can promote the reduction of uncertainty in the production process and the improvement of production quality. "How does knowledge sharing affect the production performance of energy enterprises" has become the focus of production management in the industry. However, the impact mechanism of knowledge sharing between energy enterprises participating in the production system on energy production performance is not clear, and there is no research experience that can be used for reference. Based on the consistency of the goal of value creation activities of energy enterprises and the learning curve theory, this paper applies the methodological framework of "Hall for Workshop of Metasynthetic Engineering, HWME" to explore the internal mechanism of how inter-organizational knowledge sharing influences the production performance of energy enterprises through the transmission of technology learning in the field of unconventional oil and gas production. Our findings show that:(1) inter-organization knowledge sharing has a significant positive effect on the production performance of energy firms; (2) technology learning plays a mediating role in the relationship between the inter-organization knowledge sharing and the production performance of energy firms; 3) Inter-organization knowledge sharing affects the productivity of an enterprise by technology cost and technical effect, and the mediating effect of technical effect is dominant.

Key words: unconventional oil and gas, knowledge sharing, technology learning, hall for work shop of metasynthetic engineering