子公司外部網絡鑲嵌之決定因素與影響效果

The Determinants and Consequences of SubsidiaryExternal Embeddedness

10.6656/MR.2012.31.1.CHI.21

陳律睿(Lu-Jui Chen)；蔡顯童(Hsien-Tung Tsai)；劉峰旭(Feng-Hsu Liu)

多國企業 ； 子公司 ； 外部網絡鑲嵌 ； 子公司重要性 ； Multinational Enterprise ； Subsidiary ； External Embeddedness ； SubsidiaryImportance

管理評論

31卷1期（2012 / 01 / 01）

21 - 44

繁體中文

子公司的外部網絡鑲嵌關係是維持其長期競爭優勢的重要基礎。本研究旨在探討子公司外部網絡鑲嵌之前置因素與其結果。在實證部分，本研究透過229家多國企業在台投資子公司的問卷調查資料，利用LISREL進一步驗證所提出之研究模型。本研究主要發現有三：第一，國際化策略以及資源落差會影響到子公司外部網絡的發展程度；第二，子公司外部網絡鑲嵌程度會正向影響子公司在企業內的重要性；最後，子公司談判力會受到子公司外部網絡鑲嵌程度的影響，但其重要性並不會因為子公司的談判力大小而有所影響。整體而言，本研究發現子公司在地主國經營時會受到內部連結關係以及外部關係的影響，據此提出相關理論貢獻及管理意涵。

This study investigates how foreign subsidiaries' external embeddedness comes from and how it relates to the subsidiary importance. Using detailed questionnaire on 229 subsidiaries of multinational enterprises in Taiwan, our analysis revealed three significant findings. First, the headquarters' internationalization strategy and resource gap have the positive effect to subsidiary external embeddedness. Second, external embeddedness is also related positively to the subsidiary importance. Third, subsidiary's bargaining power is caused positively by external embeddedness, but subsidiary importance have no significant effect from subsidiary's bargaining power. Overall, our results provide strong evidence that the internal linkage to subsidiary external embeddedness facilitates subsidiary bargaining power and importance.

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