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By a variety of accounts, the number and scope of interorganizational collaborations have grown rapidly in many industries, especially in the large assembly industries such as shipbuilding, automobile, machine. Despite the emphasis on developing cooperative subcontracting relationships, many relationships between powerful contractor and upstream subcontractors are still adversarial. Many scholars argues that developing relationship commitment can have positive consequences for the participants in the interfirm relationships. But in the world of practice, the application of relationship commitment to the substantial subcontracting networks have many limitations.This study proposed knowledge－sharing routine as mediator for interfirm relationships in addition to relationship commitment. Empirical results shows that knowledge－sharing routine as mediator has increased relationship performance in the subcontracting networks. Therefore, the introduction of formal knowledge－sharing routine in the subcontracting networks has important role in the construction of collaborative network for creation of key knowldege asset.