Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2-2018
Abstract
This study examines the determinants of the subsidiary modes of overseas research anddevelopment (R&D) by Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs). Based on resource-based view and absorptive capabilities, we propose that financial resources and technologi-cal resources have different effects on the selection of overseas R&D subsidiary modes,which are competence-exploiting mode or competence-creating mode. This is supportedby the empirical results in this paper using data from a survey of 40 Chinese overseasR&D subsidiaries. The results demonstrate that the parent firms with richer financialresources and more R&D expenses prefer the competence-exploiting mode, while the par-ent firms with more R&D personnel favor the competence-creating mode. Additionally,this study finds that firms matching our mode choice model tend to enjoy a higher level ofinnovative performance.
Discipline
Finance | Finance and Financial Management
Publication
R&D Management
Advisors/Committee Chairs
NA
Degree Awarded
PhD in Business (Finance)
Issue
2
First Page
253
Last Page
265
ISSN
1467-9310
Identifier
10.1111/radm.12304
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
WANG, Yanyu; XIE, Wei; LI, Jizhen; and LIU, Chenxi.
What factors determine thesubsidiary mode of overseas R&D by developing-country MNEs? Empirical evidence from Chinese subsidiaries abroad. (2018). R&D Management. 48, (2), 253-265.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/phd_publications_collection/2
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12304
