The objectives of this paper are to determine the patterns of innovative knowledge transfer
strategies of globalized group-affiliated companies (GACs) from emerging markets and to
assess the effects of these patterns on the performance of foreign subsidiaries. The sample
are comprised of 52 Korean business groups, called chaebols, which consist of 181 parent
firms and their 1,068 foreign subsidiaries as of the end of 2009. In the study, we employ the
perspectives of organizational learning and internal resource-based theories of the …