This aim of this paper is to investigate how subsidiaries change roles and what factors promote such a shift with the intension to explore the missing link of multinational subsidiary evolution.

• 摘要本研究的主要目的为研究多国籍企业子公司演化中少被注意到的阙环-即研究子公司角色如何改变及讨论什麽因素会造成其变化的产生。