To probe the internal effectiveness of knowledge transfer between Taiwan firms and Chinese subsidiaries.

• Main Authors: Morgan Chiu, 邱奕進
• Other Authors: Nien-Chi Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45247662773510837519

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 人力資源管理研究所碩士在職專班 === 92 === Investment styles in Chinese subsidiaries of Taiwanese firms gradually transform from labor-intensed industries into capital-intensed and technology-intensed industries. In addition, the scale of investment has grown bigger than before. Currently, on one hand there are considerable foreign investments entering the Chinese market. On the other hand middle and small-sized firms are growing within Chinese market. How to promote the competitive advantage is a big challenge for Taiwanese firms in the present stage. Therefore, how to effectively transfer resources, skills and knowledge to subsidiaries in Mainland China for Taiwanese firms to enhance operational performance is the major concern of this research. While different from prior researches, some researchers have focused almost exclusively on integrative frameworks and others have focused merely on single dimension about the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. Few studies were found that making use of the dyadic factors, including organization culture, knowledge gap and the degree of trust, to probe the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. This research adopts 3 dyadic factors to study the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. There are three major objectives for this research: First, to probe the effect factor about the degree of culture discrepancy to the effectiveness of knowledge transfer between parent firms in Taiwan and subsidiaries in Mainland China. Second, to probe the effect factor about the degree of knowledge gap to the effectiveness of knowledge transfer between parent firms in Taiwan and subsidiaries in Mainland China. Finally, to probe the effect factor about the degree of trust to the effectiveness of knowledge transfer between parent firms in Taiwan and subsidiaries in Mainland China. The population of our survey consisted of Chinese subsidiaries of Taiwanese firms that have direct investment and built establishments in Mainland China. We targeted our samples to manufacturing industries that consisted of two major sources, including the Buyers’ Guide 2002/2003 published by the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufactures’ Association and the publicly Traded Firms’ China Investment Directory 2003 issued by the Investment Commission of Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan. Among 135 respondent companies, we found that information technology industry is superior to traditional industry in the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. In addition, the dyadic factors, including the smaller the degree of culture gap, knowledge gap and the higher that of trust between parent firms and subsidiaries, were positively related to the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. Finally, among 3 dyadic factors, the most powerful effect factor to the effectiveness of knowledge transfer between parent firms and subsidiaries is culture gap and the next is knowledge gap. The smallest one is trust.