The Study On The Acquisition Mechanism Of The Knowledge Rents In The Process Of The Internationalization Growth Of The Cluster Enterprises

Under the influence of the there power interaction: the advantage of the laborendowment, the large-scale absorbing foreign direct investment and the big country’sadvantage, More and more manufacturing activities links of the industrial chain aretransferred or outsourced to china by the transnational corporation. Basing on thenetwork platform of the global manufacturing, the manufacturers and processingcluster enterprises in china have developed rapidly, the Yangtze and the Pearl Riverdelta region have become the important processing and production bases. Theglobalization trend is driven by the overseas investment and offshore outsourcing ofthe International Corporation, and these are not only make the global competitionregime evolve, but also provide an unprecedented strategic opportunities for themanufacturers and processing cluster enterprises in china. So the cluster enterprises inchina must seize the strategic opportunity firmly, and rely on the global value chainwhich dominated by the Multi-National Corporation, approach successfully theglobal market and the technology innovation path, actively integrate into the globalmanufacturing network, realized by the evolution of strong manufacturing capabilityand innovation capability. In the new economic background, the cultivation of theunique knowledge resources to construct the core competence becomes the inevitablechoice to promote the international competitiveness by the enterprises. The globalproduction networks (inter-organizational networks) which embedded the clusterenterprises in china can provide the new opportunity of the knowledge resources, theability to obtain knowledge, sharing creating and using, and help to expand theresources and ability system and the enterprise’s value creation space. But, payattention, this international and opening just provide a new opportunity to the clusterenterprises in china, which not mean that all the enterprises gain the meaningful andquality of development in the process of the internationalization and the open, notmean that all the enterprises realize the production capability to the innovationcapability in the global value chain of the innovation process of the appearance of “production fragmentation” vertical separation.Under the background of the new international division of labor, facing the richexternal tacit knowledge of the Global value chain, the cluster enterprises how tomake use of the " the Window of opportunity" to realize the knowledge innovation，how to actively explore and reasonable use the relationship from the Globalproduction networks，how to continually adjust the integration manner between thelocal cluster of enterprises and the global value chain to improve the internationalcompetitiveness and the rental income share in the new international division of laborpattern. These answers are highly strategic important realistic significance. But, regret,the existing theory can not analysis and discuss systemically and give the guidingsignificance to the management countermeasures and suggestions for the clusterenterprises in china. In view of this, this study will revolve around the aboveproblems. In this study, from the Angle of inter-organizational knowledge for rent, wemake the cluster enterprise as the research object embedding in the globalmanufacturing network. Under the background of internationalization and openknowledge innovation era, we how to make the cluster enterprises in the globalnetwork to innovate, explore, utilize the external network reasonably, adjust theintegration of the global value chain, create, capture, retain the value-the knowledgerents.Under the growing dynamic and complex nature of the global economic businessenvironment, international growth companies showing a cluster of new features: Thatis the growing evolution of the global production networks relationship which isembedded into multinational global value chains, it is based on the evolution ofnetworked embedded network organization under growing environment. Therefore,this study integrated use of "embedded" theory, resource-based view, the ability toview business, global division of labor theory of value chains and views, pointing outthat Chinese current specific endowments and institutional constraints, the real termsand key of cluster enterprises relying on global value chains to achieve internationalgrowth: That the enterprise cluster international growth is achieved by embedding acluster dominated by multinational companies to global value chains of globalproduction network access to external knowledge rent. The process of internationalization of enterprises cluster growth is also its continuous improvedprocess of the abilities to getting knowledge rents from the global value chain. Onthis basis, this study constructed embedding enterprise network, network capacity,absorptive capacity, knowledge rents acquisition and conceptual models betweencluster internationalization of growth, Clearly outline the clusters outside theenterprise network "embedded" features, the enterprises absorptive capacity ofknowledge resources during network、networking capabilities, and the relationshipand the way interaction among the two capacities’ coupling with enterpriseknowledge rents acquisition and international growth. In order to be able to reveal theexternal network properties，which is based on the cluster enterprise, mechanism ofaction for the dynamic competitiveness to improving the cluster enterprises’international competitiveness of enterprises.Specifically, the study carried out the following researches: Firstly, based on theliterature review and a large scale field research, conducting logical mechanismanalysis to the related core elements, proposing the core concepts such as clusterenterprises and knowledge rents, the main dimensions and clustering growinginternationalization process of preliminary theoretical model of knowledgeacquisition. The model covers five sub-models: Based on the Perspective ofEmbeddings "relational embeddings, knowledge rents acquisition and clusterenterprises’ internationalization growth","structural embedding, knowledge rentsacquisition and cluster enterprises’ internationalization growth"; Competency-basedperspective "network capabilities, access to knowledge cluster internationalizationgrowth","absorptive capacity, knowledge rents acquisition and growth clusterinternationalization","absorptive capacity and network capabilities coupled clustersof knowledge rents acquisition and cluster companies’ international growth."Secondly, a preliminary study empirical tests the proposed model. For the sub-modelone, two, three, four are supported by statistical analysis methods of structuralequation mainly explore the relationship between embedded structural embedding,network capabilities, absorptive capacity, knowledge, relationships and clusteringmechanism rent to get companies between international growth; the five sub-modelusing the method of gray correlation analysis to explore the relationship between the coupling mechanism, knowledge acquisition and rents growing internationalization ofthe cluster network capabilities and the ability to absorb between. Finally, after afull-text analysis and discussion, we draw the following main conclusions:embedding of clusters outside the network: structural relationship betweenembedding and embedding knowledge by helping companies achieve cluster rent thusboosting its international growth; cluster enterprise networking capabilities, and theability to absorb both the coupling between the role of knowledge in enterprise clusterrent access to help them ultimately achieve international growth.The chapter arrangements of this study as follows: The first chapter is anintroduction, introduce this study’s purposes, significance, object and the key issuesto be addressed; The second chapter is the theoretical basis and the literature review,on the basis of the literature review, establish the theoretical basis of the study’sconceptual model; The third chapter is to build a conceptual model and proposehypotheses，put forward conceptual model and hypotheses of the acquisition ofknowledge rent during the cluster enterprise internationalization growth, which isunder the "embedded" perspective and "ability" perspective; The fourth chapter is thestudy’s design and methodology, mainly for planning the research’s processes andstrategic; The fifth chapter is empirical research on acquisition of knowledge rentduring the cluster enterprise internationalization growth which is under the"embedded" perspective; The sixth chapter is empirical research on acquisition ofknowledge rent during the cluster enterprise internationalization growth which isunder the "ability" perspective; The seventh chapter is empirical research onacquisition of knowledge rent and achieving internationalization growth on the basisof cluster enterprise network capacity and absorptive capacity coupled with eachother; these above three chapters are the empirical analysis of the study’s conceptualmodel; The eighth chapter is the research findings and policy recommendations,which is based on the results of the empirical analysis, summary the full text of theconclusions, make policy recommendations on international management clusterenterprises and government departments.In this study, we strictly follow the logical analysis of the“structure-conduct-performance”, and establish the theoretical framework of "embedded network capacity-the knowledge rent", aim to reveal the effects of thecoordination evolution between the network of the enterprises and the dynamictoward the acquisition of the knowledge rents. Which can provide a new viewpoint?In addition, we creatively construct the conceptual model which involving thenetwork embeddings, the network capacity, the absorptive capacity, the acquiring ofthe knowledge rents, the internationalization growth of the cluster enterprises, whichcan reveal the essence of the influence of global production network affecting theinternational competitiveness of the cluster enterprises. Based on empirical results,this study also provides policy recommendations for the international corporate andgovernment-related cluster administration: That is to implement make nationalstrategy main function as an opportunity to promote cluster enterprises’transformation and upgrading、adjust the industries and attract investment’s policyorientation、foster and enhance the ability to absorb knowledge cluster enterprises、enhance the ability of the enterprise network cluster、 promote multinationalcompanies and clusters bidirectional embedding integration and interaction.Thisstudy has a great guiding significance for the cluster enterprises in the globalmanufacturing network, how to effectively manage the network, use the knowledgespillover in the global value chains efficiently, explore an internationalization pathdriven by the knowledge innovation.