부산대학교 도서관

Headquarters-subsidiary relationships are the important issue for MNEs. Prior researches on this issue have only primarily focused on the headquarters-advantages or subsidiary initiatives advantages. This research used headquarters-subsidiary relationships and argues that headquarters' initiative knowledge and subsidiary choices factors each have important influences on the knowledge innovating. Further, when subsidiary hold the knowledge innovating, the performance would be enhanced. Using samples of subsidiaries located in Taiwan, we find that headquarters' knowledge quality, subsidiary initiatives and subsidiary influence have positive effect on the knowledge innovation, while empirical support for our theoretical framework.