跨国公司海外子公司的发展和演化是跨国公司中比较年轻的一个分支。这一分支中的研究主要从子公司的角度考察跨国公司母公司和子公司之间的关系及其变化。20世纪90年代以来知识基础观的兴起为跨国公司海外子公司的特有竞争优势的培养提供了新的力量视角。在这一领域的理论和实证研究都有很强的理论和实际意义。
Studies on the evolution of MNE foreign subsidiaries represent a comparatively young stream of research, which investigate the relationship between the parent company and the subsidiary from the perspective of the latter. The rise of the knowledge-based view in the 1990s has shed insights on the research on subsidiary-specific advantage. Both conceptual and empirical researches in this field carry significant theoretical and policy implications.