子公司特定优势是子公司保持其在跨国公司内部的合法性,并在东道国市场得以生存和发展的核心.从跨国公司子公司的角度,提出子公司在跨国公司知识创新和流动体系中的四种角色差异.指出,针对这几种主要角色,可以通过鼓励自治行为、加入知识群体以及强调知识的独特性等政治行为控制知识流动,形成并提高子公司特定优势.
Subsidiary specific advantage maintains its legitimation within the multinational corporation and is the reason why it can survive and develop in the host country. From the subsidiary's perspective, it puts forward the theory of subsidiaries' four different roles in the knowledge innovation and flow systems. For different roles, subsidiary could use political tactics to control the knowledge flows and then create and improve the subsidiary specific advantage by selfgovernment, join the knowledge group and declare the differentiation of its knowledge.