공급사슬의 관계자본이 기술개발역량에 미치는 영향－해외 제조 기업을 중심으로－

We empirically show that the effects of relationship capital in supply chain between Korean parent firms and their foreign subsidiaries on technology development capability and technology innovation performance. For study, an empirical study was performed for a path model using structural equation modeling on survey data of 165 foreign subsidiaries in the manufacturing sector. In structural equation model, we focus on the mediating effects of absorptive capability with Sobel test. This study finds that, for the overall sample, there are positive relationships among relationship capital, absorptive capability, technology development capability and technology innovation performance. Findings of this study have several implications as follows: First, it is important to construct the relationship capital between Korean parent firms and their foreign subsidiaries. Second, foreign subsidiary’s absorptive capability is important between relationship capital and subsidiary’s technology development capability. Lastly, this study supports that technology development capability escalates the performance as existing studies.