Abstract:In recent years, Chinese enterprises have gradually emphasized on the overseas investments motivated in knowledge assets. In order to meet the knowledge object, Chinese enterprises prefer to introduce the reverse knowledge transfer from the subsidiaries to parent companies so as to get access to the modern knowledge in the developed host countries. Therefore, this paper would make an empirical study on this issue to probe into the working mechanism of reverse knowledge transfer on the insight of Chinese parent companies, based on the survey data from Chinese enterprises. And in this paper, we would introduce the strategy factors (including international strategy and the controlling degree of parent companies), and the absorb factors (the knowledge absorbing capability and the supporting system) to construct the two-dimension factor system of reverse knowledge transfer. After proofing the dramatic effect of the four factors to knowledge transfer by regression analysis, we would make further research on the transfer mechanism based on the two-dimension factors of parent companies, and have finally got conclusions that the parent mechanisms could be divided into four types, the leading mechanism, the applying one and the guiding one and the passive one.