关键词: 吸收能力, 制度环境, 逆向知识转移, 中国海外投资企业, absorptive capabilities, the institute environment, reverse knowledge transfer, Chinese enterprises investing overseas

Abstract: with the development of multinational investments of Chinese enterprises, the host countries of Chinese investing enterprises have transformed from developing countries to the developed ones, and our enterprises have emphasized on knowledge-seeking motivations more and more. In order to meet the knowledge needs, Chinese parent enterprises have gradually focused on the reverse knowledge transfer which could share knowledge resources with subsidiaries in host countries. And this paper would make an empirical research on the parent enterprises’ factors of reverse knowledge transfer, which contain absorptive capability and institute environment factors. According to statistic analysis, it could be concluded that absorptive capabilities have made significant effect on reverse knowledge transfer in three types as the sharing capability, the applying capability and the innovative capability, while the institute environment factors have also dramatic effect on knowledge transfer, containing innovative culture, the learning system, and MIS, the supporting resources, communicating channels and so on. Finally, in the analysis based on different indexes of reverse knowledge transfer, the above independent factors have even made quite different effect on the dependent indexes.