台灣多國籍企業在海外直接投資研發活動的比重有逐年提高的趨勢，赴先進國家投資的廠商，技術當地化的情形也愈來愈明顯，因此希望透過此研究了解個案公司於海外研發據點網絡的現況與其背後的動機，並研究其形成過程與運作情形。由於許多創新知識的來源已不再侷限於企業所處的母國，為了保持競爭的速度，台灣企業必須在全球建立研發據點以吸收新的研發成果；此外，建立跨國研發網絡，有利於多國籍企業將產品推上國外市場，然而，多國籍企業的資源可能因此分散於不同的地區，每個據點又賦予其不同的角色與任務。如何來管理這些分散的研發據點，來達到全球規模的效率與彈性，並且台灣多國籍企業在佈局海外研發據點時，有何策略考量，也是本研究的探討主題。
台灣多國籍企業在海外的研發活動尚在演化當中，而且台灣發展海外研發活動也有其特殊的背景。為了要深入了解造成此現象的原因，以及台灣多國籍企業的海外研發活動型態，因此採用個案研究方法來進行，選擇的研究對象則是以具有完整的海外研發活動建構過程的台灣多國籍企業為主，透過深入地訪談參與海外研發活動的高階主管來蒐集資料，以開放式的談話來進行，並且以其他次級資料來源作為了解研究對象的輔助資訊。
本研究發現台灣多國籍企業在不同階段會有不同的海外研發動機，除了必須回應當地市場的需求，快速推出商業化的產品；海外當地的技術和人才，也是強化母公司研發能力的重要資源。在速度、成本與競爭的考量下，多國籍企業積極地整合海內外的研發資源，海外研發活動也必須與公司事業策略方向互相配合，並且進一步來思考如何管理組織的資訊流動與研發活動的協調整合。此外，透過各種溝通管道，協助母公司來了解與掌控海外研發活動的進度，並且讓研發知識與經驗得以在組織內部傳遞，來刺激組織創新的能量。

Many Taiwanese multinational corporation (MNC) increase the proportion of their foreign direct investment in R&D activities year by year. The companies investing in the advanced nations operate R&D activities in the local market obviously. Through this thesis, we desire to know the status of overseas R&D sites in these cases and their motives. Futhermore, we also want to discuss how they build up and operate these R&D sites. Due to much more innovative knowledge resources outside the parent country, Taiwanese companies need to globalize their R&D sites to acquire the R&D results; in addition, establish the network of overseas R&D sites makes MNCs to promote their products in the global market smoothly. However, MNCs have to disperse their corporate resources in diffirent locations, and give each site diffirent roles and tasks. Other important issues among these MNCs are how to manage these dispersed R&D sites to achieve the efficiency and the flexibility and what the strategies they consider.
Overseas R&D activity of Taiwanese MNCs is still evolving, and Taiwanese companies have their particular background. In order to find out the causes of this situation, we used the case study approach. We selected the cases which had the complete building process of overseas R&D activities, and interviewed the top managers who had the experiences in the process to gather the materials. Besides, other second-hand materials are also providing us more information to comprehend our sample cases.
We found that Taiwanese MNCs had diffirent motives in each stage. They need to respond to local market, and provide the commercial products rapidly. In addition, local technology and human resource are also the important wealth to strengthen headquarters’ R&D capabilities. Under the consideration of speed, cost and competition, MNCs integrated the R&D resources of parent and host countries aggressively, and they had to think how to match the corporate strategy. Further, they tried to manage organizational information flows and coordinate these R&D activities. Moreover, using several kinds of communication patterns helps headquarters to understand and control overseas R&D activities, and makes R&D knowledge and experiences circulate inside the organization to stimulate organizational innovative capacity.

目 錄
謝 詞 I
中文摘要 II
Abstract III
目 錄 V
表 次 VI
圖 次 VII
第壹章 緒論 1
第一節 研究動機 1
第二節 研究目的 3
第三節 研究流程 4
第貳章 文獻探討 5
第一節 台灣產業研發活動發展情況 5
第二節 海外設立研發據點之動機與策略議題 9
第三節 海外研發據點之型態 15
第四節 海外研發活動的組織結構與管理機制 19
第參章 研究方法與研究架構 25
第一節 研究方法 25
第二節 研究設計原則 27
第三節 本研究觀念性架構 29
第四節 研究限制 30
第肆章 個案公司介紹 31
第一節 A公司 31
第二節 B公司 37
第三節 C公司 44
第四節 個案公司特質整理 52
第伍章 研究發現與分析 54
第一節 海外設立研發據點的動機與研發活動型態之分析： 54
第二節 研發策略與海外研發據點策略型態之分析 62
第三節 海外研發據點組織管理議題探討 71
第陸章 研究結論與建議 82
第一節 研究命題彙整 82
第二節 研究結論 85
第三節 實務建議 89
第四節 對後續研究之建議 91
中文參考文獻 92
英文參考文獻 93

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