'Inpatriation’ for knowledge-transfer within Japanese multinational corporations
'Inpatriation’ for knowledge-transfer within Japanese multinational corporations
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日本跨国公司内部知识转移的“归国”
DOI：
10.1080/13602381.2017.1338598
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Yukiko Murakami
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作者：
Y. Shiozu;K. Kimura;K. Shimohara;and K. Yonezaki;Yukiko Murakami
本文运用知识管理理论和引力模型，分析了跨国公司内部知识转移的影响因素，并分析了跨国公司内部知识转移的影响因子公司所在地区的差异。实证分析利用对日本跨国公司海外子公司的调查所收集到的数据，发现与国家和个人有关的因素都会影响日本跨国公司的不爱国，且前者的影响比后者更大。关于国家因素，母国和东道国之间较小的地理距离和较大的文化距离，以及子公司东道国的人均国内生产总值较低，增加了不爱国现象。就跨国公司的个体因素而言，子公司研发预算较大、母公司规模较大以及子公司与母公司之间合作研发项目的执行增加了母公司对跨国公司的爱国主义。此外，这项研究发现，在亚洲，地理位置接近和人均GDP较低会促进不爱国，而相对较小的R&D预算和罕见的与日本合作的R&D项目会减少不爱国。与其他地区的子公司相比，亚洲的子公司向日本派遣异族人的数量要多得多，因为这些积极因素比这些消极因素要强得多。
This article uses knowledge management theory and the gravity model to analyse the determinants of ‘inpatriation’ for knowledge-transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs) and the differences in their effects based on the region of the subsidiary’s host country. The empirical analysis uses data collected through a survey of the overseas subsidiaries of Japanese MNCs and finds that factors related to both the countries and the individual MNCs affect inpatriation, with the former factors having a stronger influence than the latter. With regard to the country factors, a smaller geographic distance and a larger cultural distance between the home and host countries and a lower GDP per capita in the subsidiary’s host country increase inpatriation. Regarding the individual MNC factors, a larger subsidiary R&D budget, a larger parent firm and the execution of collaborative R&D projects between a subsidiary and its parent firm increase inpatriation. Additionally, this study finds that in Asia, geographic closeness and low GDP per capita facilitate inpatriation, whereas a relatively small R&D budget and rare collaborative R&D projects with Japan decrease inpatriation. More subsidiaries in Asia send inpatriates to Japan than do subsidiaries in other regions because these positive factors are much stronger than these negative factors.