The influence of strategic management knowledge characteristics on theperformance of MNCs' Chinese subsidiaries

Abstract

Abstract: The research on strategic management knowledge transfer has been ignored until now, mainly due to the ambiguity of the concept of strategic management knowledge and the difficulty of its operation in the empirical research. The MNCs' Chinese subsidiaries are focused on the concept of strategic management knowledge is re-difined and a new construct of knowledge quality is proposed. Starting from the tacitness and specificity of strategic management knowledge, the mechanism of strategic objective attainment for the Chinese subsidiaries is put forward. Chinese subsidiaries of 132 were surveyed, and related hypotheses were testified and explained under the unique Chinese economy background. The research results show that the direct effect of strategic management knowledge characteristics on the attainment of strategic objective is weakened by the mediators of knowledge quality and absorptive capacity, demonstrating statistical insignificance; there is a significantly positive effect of tacitness and specificity on knowledge quality, meanwhile only specificity has the same effect on absorptive capacity.

Key words: strategic management knowledge, tacitness, specialty, knowledge quality, absorptive capacity

CLC Number:

F272.3

Hu Ling, Jin Zhanming. The influence of strategic management knowledge characteristics on theperformance of MNCs' Chinese subsidiaries[J]. Science Research Management, 2012, (4): 93-101.

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