母公司知识转移总是提高海外子公司绩效吗? －以在华韩资企业为例－

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Traditionally, multinational corporations develop ownership specific advantage such as new technology, premium brand, management know-how, and transfer them to the foreign subsidiaries to overcome liability of foreignness. However, recent literatures focused on the worldwide strategic changes of MNCs indicate that foreign subsidiaries are important contributors to the development of firm-specific advantage in multinational corporations. In MNE network, foreign subsidiaries are internally connected with a headquarters and other subsidiaries, and externally connected with local customers, suppliers and governmental agencies. Although knowledge that a subsidiary receives from its headquarters assists in overcoming liability of foreignness, but not all knowledge which is required for international management can be accumulated internally. Therefore, if subsidiaries want to sustain their competitive advantage and achieve high levels of performance, they have to learn from both internal and external networks. Drawing upon the dynamic capability perspective, we use survey data from 129 Korean firms operating in China, try to analyze the effects of parents’ knowledge transfer, local knowledge acquisition, absorptive capacity, and environmental dynamism on subsidiary performance. Our results show that parents’ knowledge transfer and local knowledge acquisition have positive effects on subsidiary performance. We also find that the positive relationship between the parents’ knowledge, local knowledge acquisition and subsidiary performance is moderated by absorptive capacity. In addition, we demonstrate moderating effects of parents’ knowledge transfer and environmental dynamism have no significant effect on subsidiary performance, whereas environmental dynamism strengthen the effect of local knowledge acquisition on subsidiary performance. These results indicate the impacts on parents’ knowledge transfer and local knowledge acquisition on subsidiary performance depend on different contexts.

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