Overseas Chinese Network Quality:Scale Development and its Impact on Multinational Business Performance
From the perspective of social networks and taking the characteristics of the internal and external networks of o-verseas Chinese as the research starting point,this paper first constructs the network quality of overseas Chinese from four dimensions of growth,integration,connectivity and inheritance based on the rooted theory.And through a questionnaire survey of 225 overseas Chinese and local ethnic groups,exploratory factor analysis(EFA)was conducted to preliminarily verify the construct validity of network quality among overseas Chinese;Then,confirmatory factor analysis(CFA)was con-ducted through 379 questionnairesto verify the structural dimension,convergent validity and discriminant validity of the net-work quality of overseas Chinese.The results show that the network quality of overseas Chinese is the best in four dimen-sions.Finally,through a questionnaire survey of 155 Chinese overseas subsidiaries,further research confirmed that the o-verseas Chinese network quality has a positive impact on the performance of Chinese overseas subsidiaries,verified the me-diating role of dynamic capability,and tested the predictive validity of the scale.
overseas Chinese network qualityrooted theoryscale developmentdynamic capabilityperformance of over-seas subsidiaries