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Amid growing economic uncertainty and the expansion of cross-border business activities, leadership effectiveness in multinational enterprises has become a central issue in international management research. Korean firms operating in China encounter distinctive managerial challenges shaped by cultural differences, power distance, and employees’ heterogeneous learning capabilities. Although transformational leadership and paternalistic leadership have both been extensively discussed in prior studies, limited research has comparatively examined their effects within the same multinational organizational context. In addition, the boundary conditions under which these leadership styles differentially influence employee outcomes remain underexplored. Drawing on leadership theory and absorptive capacity theory, this study develops an integrative research model to examine the effects of transformational leadership and paternalistic leadership on Chinese employees’ job satisfaction and task performance in Korean firms operating in China. Absorptive capacity is incorporated as a key moderating mechanism that shapes employees’ cognitive interpretation and behavioral responses to leadership behaviors. Survey data were collected from 250 Chinese employees working in Korean enterprises in China, and empirical analyses were conducted using SPSS 26.0 and Stata 18. Transformational leadership and paternalistic leadership were measured with validated multi-item scales, with paternalistic leadership further decomposed into benevolence, morality, and authoritarianism to reflect its multidimensional structure. The results indicate that transformational leadership has significant positive effects on both job satisfaction and task performance. Paternalistic leadership exhibits differentiated effects: benevolence and morality are positively associated with task performance, whereas authoritarianism is negatively related to job satisfaction. Furthermore, absorptive capacity significantly moderates these relationships. Higher absorptive capacity strengthens the positive effects of transformational leadership as well as the benevolence and morality dimensions of paternalistic leadership, while amplifying the negative effects of authoritarian leadership. This study contributes to the literature by comparatively examining leadership styles within a multinational and culturally hybrid context and by identifying absorptive capacity as an important boundary condition of leadership effectiveness. Practically, the findings suggest that Korean firms operating in China should adopt context-appropriate leadership styles while enhancing employees’ learning and knowledge-utilization capabilities to improve organizational performance.

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Abstract
1. 서론
2. 이론적 배경 및 가설설정
2.1. 변혁적 리더십과 직무만족·업무성과
2.2. 가부장적 리더십과 직무만족·업무성과
2.3. 지식 흡수 능력의 조절 효과
3. 연구방법
3.1. 연구 설계
3.2. 변수의 측정
3.3. 자료수집 및 연구표본의 특성
4. 연구결과
4.1. 신뢰성 및 타당성 분석
4.2. 상관관계분석
4.3. 가설 검증
5. 결론
5.1. 연구결과 요약
5.2. 연구의 가치와 시사점
5.3. 연구의 한계점 및 향후 연구 방향
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• 리환 [ Li, Huan | 부산대학교 경영학과 ]
• 홍가혜 [ Hong, Gahye | 부산대학교 경영학과 ] Corresponding Author

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• 간행물명

  Journal of China Studies

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1975-5902

• eISSN

  3022-5590

• 수록기간

  2006~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 912 DDC 951