去耦还是耦合？新兴跨国企业母子间结构对海外子公司创新绩效影响机制研究

海外子公司作为后发企业获取和利用全球创新资源的排头兵，如何提升其创新绩效一直是企业全球化战略中的重要议题。母子间结构在子公司建立合法性，获取和利用技术知识进而提高创新绩效的过程中起到了关键作用，实践表明，无论去耦或耦合结构都不必然能够促进子公司创新绩效，理论界对二者关系的探索也尚未得到一致结论。基于组织耦合与制度理论，本课题遵循“现象概念化—影响效果评价—影响机制探析”的技术路线，围绕“新兴跨国企业如何选择母子间耦合结构促进海外子公司创新绩效”这一核心问题，系统识别了母子间结构的内涵与维度，提出并验证了不同结构对子公司创新绩效的作用差异及边界条件，最后引入合法性视角进一步解析了其内在作用机制。本课题贡献于：理论解构了新兴跨国企业母子间耦合结构的内涵与维度，系统剖析了其对子公司创新绩效的作用机制，搭建了“组织结构—合法性—创新”的理论框架，深化了组织耦合、合法性理论及子公司创新领域的文献。

Foreign subsidiaries are in the frontlines of acquiring and utilizing global innovation resources, and how to improve their innovation performance has long been an important issue in emerging multinationals’ (EMNEs) global innovation strategy. Headquarters-subsidiary structure plays a critical role in the process of establishing legitimacy, obtaining and utilizing technological knowledge and further enhance subsidiary innovation performance. Both empirical cases and theoretical explanation indicate that whether decoupled or coupled headquarters-subsidiary structure varies in their influence on subsidiary innovation performance. . Based on organizational coupling and institutional theory, this project follows the technical route of “Phenomenon Conceptualization – Effect Evaluation – Mechanism Analysis”, addressing this essential question: How do EMNEs choose headquarters-subsidiary coupling structure to enhance their foreign subsidiaries’ innovation performance? Specifically, this project systematically identifies the connotation and dimensions of headquarters-subsidiary coupling structure, proposes and verifies the differential effects and boundary conditions of different structure on subsidiary innovation performance, and based on legitimacy perspective, further explores the underlying effect mechanism of coupling structure. . The contribution of this project lies in three aspects: Firstly, theoretically deconstructing the connotation and composition of headquarters-subsidiary coupling structure; Secondly, systematically exploring its functioning mechanism on subsidiary innovation performance and developing the theoretical framework of “Organizational structure – Legitimacy - Innovation”; Finally, deepening the literature on organizational coupling, legitimacy theory and subsidiary innovation.