跨国出版企业海外分支机构区位布局分析
2014-10-21姚永春万才兰
姚永春+万才兰
[摘 要] 以“2013全球出版业50强”中的25家跨国出版企业为例,分析其海外分支机构区位布局特征及区位选择影响因素。跨国出版企业海外分支机构遍布世界各个地区,但地区分布和国家分布并不平衡,且在城市分布上表现出明显的集聚特征。影响跨国出版企业海外分支机构区位选择的因素,从区域市场和东道国角度看,主要有市场容量、产业集聚、教育水平与创新能力、地缘关系等因素;从跨国出版企业自身角度看,主要有企业规模及其国际化程度、企业国际化战略、企业区位选择阶段等因素。
[关键词] 出版企业 跨国出版企业 海外分支机构 区位布局
[中图分类号] G239 [文献标识码] A [文章编号] 1009-5853 (2014) 05-0061-05
Analysis on Locations of Overseas Branches of Transnational Publishing Enterprises
Yao Yongchun Wan Cailan
(School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072)(The Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Memory and Digital Information Preservation, Wuhan, 430072)
[Abstract] Taking the twenty-five transnational publishing enterprises of the top fifty global publishers in 2013 as the examples, this paper analyzes the features of locations of their overseas branches and the factors which influences the locational choices. The overseas branches of the transnational publishing enterprises are spreading around the world, but their distribution in areas and countries is out of balance and shows the feature of agglomeration in cities. From the point of regional market and host countries, the factors which influence the locational choices including market capacity,industrial agglomeration,talents of publishing, geographical relations and polices. From the point of transnational publishing enterprises themselves, the factors are composed of the scale of enterprise, the degree of internationalization, the internationalization strategy and the location selection stage of enterprise.
[Key words] Publishing enterprise Transnational publishing enterprise Overseas branch Location
分布在世界不同国家和地区的办事处、分公司、合资公司等不同类型的海外分支机构是跨国出版企业组织设计中的重要组成部分。据笔者不完全统计分析,仅“2013全球出版业50强”榜单中排名前十的跨国出版企业[1],在世界范围内就拥有500多家海外分支机构。这些设立在跨国出版企业母公司总部所在国以外的海外分支机构,是跨国出版企业实现其国际参与战略、应对全球竞争的组织保障,是其进行海外投资以获取全球优质出版资源,优化出版价值链,控制全球出版市场的关键。但海外分支机构要在出版企业的国际化经营中真正发挥引擎作用,区位选择至关重要。笔者以“2013全球出版业50强”中的25家跨国出版企业为研究对象[2],分析出版企业海外分支机构的区位分布特征及影响其区位选择的主要因素。……
