This study examines the survival of individual subsidiary in an inter-subsidiary perspective within the ever-increasing competitive environment in the Greater China region between Mainland Chinese subsidiaries and Taiwanese subsidiaries.
80 Taiwanese Multinational Enterprises¡¦ (MNEs¡¦) participated in this study and the researcher specifically looked at the two sub-frameworks, data collected were empirically tested. In the first sub-framework, it examines the influences of inter-subsidiary competition for strategic positions on subsidiary survival with respect to its strategic importance, resource asymmetry, and some characteristics of value activities. In the second sub-framework, it examines the influences of competition on knowledge flow positions with respect to knowledge flows and intellectual capital. The results showed that these determinants have different effects on subsidiary survival.
Specifically, in the first sub-framework, the strategic importance and advantages of intangible resources enhances a focal subsidiary¡¦s survival, whereas local responsiveness, advantages on physical resources, similarity and mobility of value activities decreases its survival. On the other hand, in the second sub-framework, determinants of knowledge flows specifically on knowledge inflows, knowledge transfer, and absorption capacity of a specific peer subsidiary decreases its survival rate. Further, determinants on intellectual capital such as application capabilities on organizational capital and human capital are seen as positive factors.
Finally, this study discusses the implications of inter-subsidiary competition for these factors in determining a focal subsidiary¡¦s survival.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0213108-150248 |
| Date | 13 February 2008 |
| Creators | Ho, Hua-Lun |
| Contributors | Cher-Min Fong, Chin-Tarn Lee, Tzu-Nien Liu, Cher-Hung Tseng, Pei-How Huang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0213108-150248 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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