跨国公司子公司自主决策权的战略性影响研究

Strategic Impact of Subsidiary Decision-making Power in Multinational Corporations

子公司决策自主权是子公司的一种战略主动性,对跨国公司全球资源的有效利用具有重要意义。然而,子公司自主决策权具体对跨国公司发展有何战略性影响,当前学术界则关注较少且未进行验证。本文利用111家跨国公司子公司的多被访者调查数据,对子公司自主决策权与子公司绩效、母公司创新能力间的关系进行了实证研究,研究发现:子公司自主决策权对子公司绩效和母公司创新能力均有显著的正向影响,跨国公司全球导向在子公司自主决策权与母公司创新能力的关系中扮演显著的正向调节作用,而在子公司自主决策权与子公司绩效间关系中所扮演的调节作用并未得到支持。本研究不仅深化了资源依赖理论在国际商务研究中的应用,而且对跨国公司子公司管理和整体竞争能力提升具有重要的实践意义。

Subsidiary decision-making power reflects the strategic initiative of the subsidiaries in multinational corporations （MNCs）, which has great impacts on MNCs＇ effective exploitation of global resources. However, current academia pays little attention to specific strategic impact of subsidiary decision-making power on MNCs and does not verify it. Using multi-informant survey data from 111 subsidiaries in multinational enterprises, this paper makes an empirical study on how subsidiary decision-making power will influence subsidiary performance and parent innovation capability. The findings show that subsidiary decision-making power has a significantly positive effect on subsidiary performance and parent innovation capability. Global orientation in MNCs plays a significantly positive moderating role in the relationship between subsidiary decision-making power and parent innovation capability. However, the moderating effect of global orientation on the relationship between subsidiary decision-making power and subsidiary performance is not supported. It not only deepens the application of resource dependence theory in international business research, but also has great practice significance to the improvement of subsidiary management and whole competitiveness of multinational corporations.