자회사의 지식창출 활동 결정 요인에 관한 연구: 다국적기업의 한국 내 자회사 사례를 중심으로

In Knowledge-based view, the subsidiaries of MNC are able to contribute to improve MNC's competitiveness by transferring their self-creating knowledge. They share their knowledge with parent and peer subsidiaries. It means that the role of subsidiaries evolves from 'implementor' to 'strategic leader'. Therefore, many studies have focused on subsidiary's knowledge transferring. However, the discussions about subsidiary’s knowledge creation, which is the sufficient condition for the evolution of subsidiary’s role, are insufficient. This study investigates the effects of subsidiary's local environmental and organizational characteristics on subsidiary’s knowledge creation and especially adopts three relational factors between subsidiary and other MNC’s organizations that affect on its knowledge creation. We introduced 'subsidiary's autonomy', 'subsidiary's social capital in a MNC network', and 'strength of subsidiary in a MNC network' as the subsidiary's relational factors and investigated the effect of three factors on subsidiary knowledge creation. The results showed that subsidiary's entrepreneurship as an organizational factor has a positive effect on subsidiary's knowledge creation but the level of local competition as an local environmental factor has a negative effect on it. Especially, three relational factors (autonomy, social capital, and strength of subsidiary in a MNC network) all positively related to subsidiary’s knowledge creation.