| Corporate entrepreneurship(CE) has been concerned in international management field since 1980. The research of CE has been focus in the field of strategic management, entrepreneurship research and firm growth management since 1990. The previous research focused on the relationship between CE and firm performance and the impact of environmental and organizational factors to CE, and generated an study mainstream of "environmental and organizational factors—entrepreneurial orientation(EO)—firm performance". The research field has gained valuable theoretical concepts and rich empirical results. Although previous literatures have had abundance research, the three problems haven't still been settled: (1) Integration of CE and internationalization; (2) CE research from embeddedness view; (3) Form mechanism of EO. Since Ghoshal and Bartlett put forward multinational network view, multinational subsidiary's role and function have been widely recognized. Subsidiary becomes source of resource diversity and special competitive advantage of MNC. CE in the subsidiary level showed main drive of subsidiary evolution and upgrade process. Subsidiary entrepreneurship can affect competitive advantage of whole organization. In the research topic of CE and internationalization, the research of multinational subsidiary's EO is a new emerging topic, but correlative theoretical and empirical research is scarce. So the research integrated multinational network view, relational embeddedness theory and CE theory, and analyzed impact mechanism of relational embeddedness to multinational subsidiary's EO. Main work and contents of the thesis have five aspects:I Literature summarization and structure of primary conception frame of the thesis. By detailed review of CE theory, multinational subsidiary theory, social embeddedness theory and resource view, the thesis found weakness of CE field and combination dot of above several theories, and set up primary theoretical frame of the thesis: relational embeddedness of subsidiary—resource acquisition of subsidiary—EO of subsidiary—subsidiary performance.II Case research and amendment of theoretical frame. By in-depth interview of six managers of multinational subsidiaries in China, the research know actual status of variables in primary theoretical frame, and chose main variables from multitudinous conceptions in order to make theory development accord with actual context. By comparison and analysis of cases, the thesis elementarily realized relation between main variables, which provided bases for latter relation deduction. Based on case study, the thesis amended and perfected primary theoretical frame. III Study on configuration of multinational subsidiary's EO and relation between subsidiary's EO and performance. The thesis divided multinational subsidiary's EO into three dimensions: new business venturing, product/technology innovation and strategic renewal. By questionnaire research, the thesis used exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to validate the conception design. Then, the thesis compared discrepancy of multinational subsidiary's EO of different country, stock ownership, years, size and industry in China. Finally, the thesis analyzed and validated the relation between multinational subsidiary's EO and performance by correlation analysis and regression analysis, and compared contribution of different dimension of subsidiary's EO.IV Study on impact of subsidiary's relational embeddedness to EO. The thesis explored and compared impact of parent-subsidiary relational embeddedness, subsidiary-subsidiary relational embeddedness, local customer relational embeddedness, local supplier relational embeddedness and local government relational embeddedness to subsidiary's EO and three subdimensionn of subsidiary'sEO------new business venturing, product/technology innovation and strategic renewal------by correlation analysis and regression analysis .V Study on function mechanism of relational embeddedness to subsidiary's EO. The thesis divided way of resource acquisition of subsidiary by relational embeddedness into three types: external resource acquisition, internal resource acquisition and integration of external and internal resource. The thesis used exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to validate the conception design, and proved mediation effects of resource acquisition mechanism between subsidiary's relational embeddedness and EO by correlation analysis and regression analysis.Based on above research work, some conclusions can be achieved as follows: 1. Multinational subsidiary's EO is a multi-dimension conception, can been divided into three dimensions: new business venturing, product/technology innovation and strategic renewal; 2. New business venturing, product/technology innovation and strategic renewal of multinational subsidiary can promote subsidiary performance, and product/technology innovation of subsidiary had the biggest impact to performance; 3. Parent-subsidiary relational embeddedness was the important reason of improvement of subsidiary's EO. Parent-subsidiary relational embeddedness had the biggest impact to subsidiary's EO among subsidiary's relational embeddednesses; subsidiary-subsidiary relational embeddedness hadn't obvious effect to subsidiary's EO; 4. Local relational embeddedness had obvious effect to subsidiary's EO, and local relational embeddedness of difference objects had different effect for new business venturing, product/technology innovation and strategic renewal of subsidiary; Local customer relational embeddedness had positive effect to product/technology innovation and strategic renewal of subsidiary, and hadn't obvious effect to new business venturing of subsidiary; local supplier relational embeddedness had positive effect to product/technology innovation of subsidiary, and hadn't obvious effect to new business venturing and strategic renewal of subsidiary; local government relational embeddedness had positive effect to new business venturing of subsidiary, and hadn't obvious effect to product/technology innovation and strategic renewal of subsidiary; 5. Resource acquisition mechanism had mediation effects between subsidiary's relational embeddedness and EO; Relational embeddedness of different objects affected subsidiary's EO by different resource acquisition mechanism.The thesis has made three theoretical progresses as follows: 1. Defining configuration dimensions of EO of multinational subsidiary. The thesis divided EO of multinational subsidiary into three dimensions according to special behavior of enterprise: new business venturing, product/technology innovation and strategic renewal, and used exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to validate the conception design. The model embodied meaning of CE and background of multinational, and proved multi-dimension of subsidiary's EO. 2. New perspective of EO study of multinational subsidiary. Based on limitation of present CE, the thesis integrated CE, internationalization and social embeddedness view, and put forward research frame of EO of multinational subsidiary from embeddedness view, and enriched the research of multinational subsidiary, CE and social embeddedness theory to a certain extent. 3. Constructing function mechanism of relational embeddedness to EO of multinational subsidiary. The thesis put forward and proved mediation effects of resource acquisition mechanism between subsidiary' s relational embeddedness and EO, and went along helpful exploration to black-box of form mechanism of EO of multinational subsidiary.
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