从本地走向全球：海外子公司全球创新能力构建及其跃迁机制研究——基于海克斯康(中国)的纵向单案例分析

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 得益于中国市场丰富的应用场景和客户资源，越来越多的跨国企业中国子公司逐渐从本地生产中心成长为全球创新中心，但海外子公司全球创新能力的构建机制尚不明晰。本文基于海克斯康(中国)1993—2024年的纵向单案例研究，探讨海外子公司全球创新能力构建的过程机制。研究发现：第一，海外子公司本地客户参与存在信息参与、开发参与、创新参与3种方式，在不同阶段呈现“信息提供者—开发参与者—独立创新者”的客户角色变化特征；第二，根据客户参与方式，海外子公司深度观察本地客户的需求情境，通过桥接跨国企业内外部资源和跨组织边界学习构建创新能力，并存在“客户情境观察—资源桥接—跨边界学习”的内在机制；第三，海外子公司创新能力呈现“本地创新能力—逆向创新能力—全球创新能力”的能力跃迁路径，即从母公司主导的适应性创新，到海外子公司驱动的前瞻性创新，再到海外子公司主导的引领性创新。本文的理论模型对跨国企业及其海外子公司的全球创新具有的参考意义。

关键词: 海外子公司, 全球创新能力, 本地客户参与, 能力构建, 能力跃迁

Abstract: Benefiting from the extensive application scenarios and customer resources in the Chinese market, more and more multinational corporations' subsidiaries in China are gradually growing from local production centers to global innovation centers. However, the mechanism of how global innovation capabilities of overseas subsidiaries is built remains unclear. Based on a longitudinal single case study of Hexagon(China) from 1993 to 2024, this paper explores this mechanism. Our research shows that: firstly, there are three ways for local customers of overseas subsidiaries to participate: information participation, development participation, and innovation participation. At different stages of participation, customers' role changes from information provider to development participant to independent innovator; Secondly, based on customer engagement methods, overseas subsidiaries deeply observe the demand scenarios of local customers, and build innovation capabilities by bridging internal and external resources of multinational enterprises and cross organizational boundary learning, thus forming an inherent mechanism featured with customer scenario observation, resource bridging and cross boundary learning; Third, the innovation capability of overseas subsidiaries upgrades from local innovation to reverse innovation to global innovation, or, to be specific, from adaptive innovation led by parent company, to forward-looking innovation driven by overseas subsidiaries, and then to leading innovation led by overseas subsidiaries. The theoretical model presented in this paper provides important reference for multinational corporations and their overseas subsidiaries to achieve global innovation.

Key words: overseas subsidiaries, global innovation capability, local customer participation, capability building, capability upgrade

杨金东, 许晖, 王泽鹏, 赵子倩. 从本地走向全球：海外子公司全球创新能力构建及其跃迁机制研究——基于海克斯康(中国)的纵向单案例分析[J]. 管理评论, 2026, 38(1): 261-273.

Yang Jindong, Xu Hui, Wang Zepeng, Zhao Ziqian. From Local to Global: Research on the Construction and Transition Mechanism of Global Innovation Capability of Overseas Subsidiaries—A Longitudinal Single-case Study Based on Hexagon(China)[J]. Management Review, 2026, 38(1): 261-273.

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