Study On Management Of Parent-subsidiary Corpoation Relationship From A Perspective Of Knowledge Transfer

In the ongoing rapidly changing market environment, it is impossible to gain competitive advantages for enterprise and enterprise group only by scale advantage or diversification. The essence between enterprises is changing, and the activity of knowledge production, using and creation has become the key activity in the course of enterprise's value-added. This provides a thoroughly new framework and perspective for us to analyze enterprise and the management of group and subsidiary company. Basing on this background, this research, for the knowledge-based theory perspective, studies the relationship management between parent-subsidiary corporation using theoretically and empirically method. Beginning with the research of knowledge transferring between economic entities, firstly, this study brings forward a knowledge-based governance structure, and regards parent-subsidiary corporation as a special knowledge-based governance structure. Through discussing the factors which affecting knowledge transferring and knowledge transferring ways, it illustrates the nature and reasons of parent-subsidiary corporation relationship. Then, based on this foundation, this research studies the nature and the exactly condition appropriate to use of the management institution, pattern and control mechanism, in order to give theoretic and practical guideline for the relationship management of parent-subsidiary corporation. Chapter One introduces and analyzes the research of current theories of parent-subsidiary corporation management generally, illustrates the background and meaning of this thesis's topic, and then briefly introduce the research objective, research method, content and the main creative points.Then Chapter two makes an introduction of related literature about parent-subsidiary corporation relationship.Based on the knowledge specifying and co-ordination between economic entities, through analyzing the essential character and relationship between knowledge, Chapter Three analyzes relative factors that affecting the synergy between knowledge, and then provides a two-dimension's knowledge mechanism based on the character of knowledge transferable and complementary, and the corresponding knowledge-based governance structure. This study points out the shortage of traditional governance structure, explains the significant meaning of knowledge-based governance structure to analyzing parent-subsidiary corporation.Taking the fundamental dimension of knowledge-based governance structure-transferability as the start point, Chapter Four analyzes the influence of knowledge's transferability to the shaping of parent-subsidiary corporation relationship. It analyzes the degree to which of knowledge character, knowledge's transferring ability and transferring context to knowledge's transferability. Based on the analysis of relationship between theses three factors and governance structure, it then discusses the impact of these three factors to the shaping of parent-subsidiary corporation relationship.In Chapter Five, it first illustrates the complementary characteristics of knowledge and their classes, points out that knowledge transferring creates value by the combination of three type complementary knowledge, and analyzes the knowledge complementary types and their naturebetween parent-subsidiary corporation, and their impact to the relationship between parent-subsidiary corporation. Based on this, using knowledge's complementary dimension and transferable dimension, this study explores the reason why parent-subsidiary corporation's vertical integration and horizontal integration taking place theatrically. Finally, through case studying, it analyses the management process of knowledge transferring between parent-subsidiary corporation. This has makes a solid base for further study of parent-subsidiary corporation relationship management.In chapter Six, the thesis firstly analyzes the impact of technology, environment and knowledge to the organization structure. It illustrates the internal relation between knowledge...