Abstract
The study of the mother factory started from our research project that published the report in 1995.The study was passed 20 years from the first publication.The aim of this article make clear the results of this study and the future research subjects.Toward this aim,firstly,I explain the role of mother factory.According to my research,the mother factory becomes the place that,through accepting the foreign factory's employees,the employees share the tacit knowledge of the mother factory. Also, the mother factory converts the tacit knowledge that accumulated in the mother factory, into the explicit knowledge. By this thing, the foreign factory can use the production knowledge that the mother factory possess under the different overseas environment. In addition, the factory helps to make the place that shares the tacit knowledge in the foreign factory through sending the employees who works in the mother factory.Secondly,this article shows new research subjects. In the situation that the globalization of company is progressing, the future issues are how the relationship of the mother and foreign factory changes.
