Can Multinational Enterprises Introduce New Institutions to Host Countries?
Can Multinational Enterprises Introduce New Institutions to Host Countries?
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跨国企业能否在东道国引入新制度？
作者：
Jöran Wrana;J. R. Diez
跨国企业在社会责任的框架内，从母国推广职业培训理念，以培养更优秀的技术人才，同时为越南教育体系的升级做出贡献。因此，他们有可能成为“制度企业家”，这是一个迄今为止在经济地理学中很少讨论的观点。本文通过与当地学校开展合作项目，考察了跨国公司在多大程度上可以实施母国制度。基于对日本和德国跨国公司及其他利益相关者的19次深入访谈，我们进行了定性内容分析。运用技能形成系统（SFS）的概念和Boschma的邻近方法，我们发现，跨国公司可以影响区域教育系统，通过引入其母国的SFS的制度元素。认知、社会、制度和空间四个邻近维度在跨国公司选择当地学校作为合作伙伴时发挥着重要作用。
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have promoted vocational training concepts from their home countries as part of their social responsibility in order to acquire better skilled workers, while contributing toward an upgrading of Vietnam’s education system. Thus, they potentially become ‘Institutional Entrepreneurs’, an idea that has been marginally discussed in economic geography up to now. This article examines to what extent MNEs can implement home-country institutions, by carrying out cooperation projects with local schools. Based on 19 in-depth interviews with Japanese and German MNEs and other involved stakeholders, we conducted a qualitative content analysis. Using the skill formation system (SFS) concept and Boschma’s proximity approach, we find out that MNEs can influence regional education systems by introducing institutional elements of their home country’s SFSs. All four proximity dimensions - cognitive, social, institutional and spatial - play an important role for MNEs to select local schools as cooperation partners.