China has been a popular place for investment since it opened market in 1980¡¦s. Firms need to consider how to use inner and outer factors to gain competitiveness in this furious competition. This research is using a qualitative approach and case details were collected from firms which operate in China for years. This research aims to discover the relationship between firms¡¦ inner factors which are organizational capital types, strategic human capital management practices, and corporate entrepreneurship capability, and how they affect organizational competitiveness. Besides, this research also adds in the effect of institutional environment to find out how it influences those inner resources. Findings reveal that environmental factors are influencing firms¡¦ corporate entrepreneurship capability, but the effect is different in different industries and ownerships. For foreign investment, the effect is weak and negative; for local high-tech firms, the effect is strong and positive; for local service firms, the effect is huge and negative. Moreover, organizational capital types and strategic human capital management practices are influenced by institutional environment. Organizational capital is positively influencing corporate entrepreneurship and influencing selection of strategic human capital management practices, and even positively affecting organizational competitiveness. However, corporate entrepreneurship capability is influenced by organizational capital types and strategic human capital management practices and further affecting organizational competitive ability.

This dissertation explores (i) the determinants of executive selection in the international labor market, (ii) how these determinants shift relative to economic and institutional conditions, and (iii) how they differ for various functional roles. Using regression-based analysis and competitive assignment matching models, I examined executive appointment patterns in the subsidiaries of global banks located in Central & Eastern Europe between 2005 and 2012. The setting and timeframe not only yielded a heterogeneous sample of executive appointments under a variety of environmental conditions but also provided the opportunity to study the impact of financial shocks in the environment and/or the subsidiary network on executive succession during and in the aftermath of the Financial Crisis of 2008. The results indicate that there exists a substantial difference in appointment strategies by functional role, which remains intact regardless of the level of environmental uncertainty present in the subsidiary market. In examining the entire subsidiary executive team, the results of the two-sided competitive assignment matching model show that firm-specific human capital is the dominant determinant of an executive appointment during an economic upswing, but during an economic downturn firm-specific human capital is nearly four times weaker in driving an executive—subsidiary match than general human capital. Upon limiting the sample to just subsidiary CEOs, I find that while broad economic shocks and subsidiary-specific performance shocks both incite CEO turnover, they prompt different preferences for successors' human capital attributes. Specifically, country-wide economic crisis promotes a preference for local human capital, while performance shocks limited to the subsidiary are associated with a preference for expatriate human capital and for successors with broad international experience.

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The innovative capacity of firms fundamentally relies on the organization of strategic human capital. Highly skilled and talented employees drive knowledge creation through their expertise and creativity. As such, the organization and redeployment of knowledge workers across global subsidiaries and teams is a pivotal capability underpinning firms’ competitive edge. However, firms must operate within and adhere to the macro regulatory environments in the countries where they are located. With increasingly global interconnectedness, there is also a rise in nations’ announcing changes to their immigration policies to support national interests. These changes to immigration policies may affect firms' ability to organize human resources in a way that is most conducive for their knowledge creation and innovation objectives. Firms may then respond strategically to meet their innovation objectives while protecting their knowledge from leaking to competitors in foreign or local geographies. This dissertation examines how changes to immigration policies prompt strategic responses from firms in terms of meeting their innovation objectives by reorganizing their human capital and further proposes a three-dimensional framework for an immigration policy that supports economic growth and innovation in the destination country. The first chapter lays the groundwork for the dissertation and review conceptual foundations of each of the following essays. The second chapter examines the strategic response by multinational enterprises (MNEs) when their ability to deploy knowledge workers across national boundaries is affected by restrictive immigration policies. The third chapter examines individual- and firm-level responses to an increase in employees’ bargaining power. Findings reveal that the regulation afforded greater bargaining power to ethnic inventors, leading to greater interfirm mobility, positional changes in the intrafirm collaboration network, and a change in innovation performance. Finally, the fourth essay then argues that in addition to formal human capital, foreign knowledge workers contribute unique social capital which benefits their MNE employers in terms of innovation outcomes and puts forth a comprehensive three-dimensional immigration policy framework integrating migrants’ skillsets with their bridging potential across nations, contingent on inter-state relations. By accounting for security trade-offs and variations in bilateral collaborative intent, this multidimensional perspective allows calibrated screening of talent from allied versus adversarial origins. Synthesized together, the three studies highlight how regulations pertaining to high-skilled immigration significantly disrupt organizations’ access to strategic foreign talent, necessitating trade-offs to reconfigure innovation capabilities. This dissertation contributes to strategic management and international business literature by underlining the global organization of human capital as pivotal to understanding MNE responses to external constraints on foreign talent deployment. Further, it informs immigration policy debates through a multifaceted evaluation of skillsets, bridging ties and bilateral relations that influence productive integration of foreign talent. / Business Administration/Strategic Management

人力資本的衡量，為智慧資本領域中相當重要的一環。但過往的研究與討論，卻都陷入「靜態」與「歷史」資料的分析，對於企業在管理與決策時，並無法提供適時、適當且適切之資訊。本研究利用動態競爭分析之概念，改善人力資本資訊在使用上不足之處，並據以建立預測企業未來發展及表現的衡量基礎。 本研究採個案研究法，以我國智慧型手機製造企業為研究對象，利用公開資訊的蒐集與分析，探討其發展過程中有關策略性人力資本的變動，衡量個案公司在投入面、管理面及產出面之智慧資本，並與顧客資本及創新資本相結合，同步利用量化及質化之方式對策略性人力資本之衡量與其所創造之價值進行分析，進而做出下列結論： 一、策略將嚴重影響企業人力資本的內涵與價值。 二、策略執行的效度與效率會因管理階層對策略之決心與態度而有差異。 三、組織中團隊功能異質性的提升，有助於企業發展創新策略。 四、組織中團隊教育背景異質性的下降，有於助企業集中資源，聚焦策略，並增加產品發展及技術創新之強度。 / The measurement of human capital is always a crucial part of intellectual capital issue. However, researchs and discussions both are focus on the “static” and “historical” data analysis in the past. It is bounded to provide timely, appropriate information to assist management formulating strategy and making decisions. This study is aim to improve the weakness of statistical human capital’s information and establish the forward-looking forecasting scheme to measure enterprise’s performance. This study select one smartphone manufacturer in Taiwan as an sample, by adopting the method of case study, we collect public information and deeply analyze the various factors about strategic human capital, including the heterogeneity of team member by functional attributes and by educational disciplines. We integrate strategic human capital data with customer capital and innovation capital, measure enterprise’s performance in input, management and output aspects both in quantitative and qualitative method simultaneously, and create the value of combination with these intellectual capitals. Then make the following conclusions: First, the strategy always will seriously affect the meaning and value of human capital. Second, the determination and attitude of management will influence the validity and efficiency of strategy. Third, the higher heterogeneity of team member in functional attributes has positive help when developing innovative strategies. Fourth, the lower heterogeneity of team member in educational disciplines has positive help to centralize business resources, focus on specific strategy, and increase the strength of product development and technology innovation.