摘要
在创新网络中,企业可以通过松散的合作抑或紧密的联盟伙伴关系有效获取创新所需的异质性知识,但很多企业由于无法区分它们之间的差异进行正确的维护而痛失创新机会,阻碍了企业的创新。论文以资源基础理论和社会网络理论为基础,将个体层面企业间的关系强弱和集体层面网络密度纳入到同一个框架进行研究。研究结果表明,在稠密的网络中,较强和较弱的联盟合作伙伴关系都不利于企业创新,但是联盟惯例能够减轻他们的影响,合适的伙伴关系最利于企业创新;在稀疏的网络中,合作伙伴关系越强,企业的创新绩效越明显,而且联盟惯例也强化了他们之间的关系。研究结论对如何进行合作伙伴关系的选择和维护,有效利用外部资源,推动技术创新,提升企业核心竞争力具有重要的理论和实践意义。
With the rapid development of global economy,it is a universal phenomenon that the improvement of enterprise innovation ability increasingly depends on R&D investment.Innovation activities are the result of the interaction of a variety of heterogeneous resources,so it is an important path for enterprises to obtain innovation resources through alliances and other cooperative relationships.The study of both theory and practice has shown that the cooperative relationship,no matter loose or close,is an important path for enterprises to obtain external innovation resources.However,scholars have different views on the effect of the two types of relationship on enterprise innovation.Therefore,this study will explore how to choose the right partners by identifying the roles of different types of relationship in the process of enterprise innovation,thereby guiding enterprise innovation activities.We randomly select a sample of 295 high-tech enterprises from the manufacturing industry in Hefei High-tech Zone,Hefei Economic and Technological Development Zone and Hefei Xinzhan District.The results show that neither strong nor weak alliance partnership in the dense network is conducive to improving enterprise innovation ability,while maintaining the appropriate strength of partnership is the most conducive to enterprise innovation performance.However,alliance routines can reduce the above mentioned effects.In the sparse network,the stronger the partnership,the more obvious the innovation performance of enterprises,and alliance routines also strengthen the relationship between them.The theoretical contributions are as follows:Firstly,we expand the previous literature on relationship strength and innovation performance,and study the effect of external relationships on innovation performance by bringing individual network and collective network into the same framework,which supplements the perspective of existing studies in explaining the relationship strength paradox.It is found that the effect of relationship strength on innovation performance is not the same under different network density conditions.Secondly,we reveal the moderating effect of alliance routines on relationship strength and innovation performance under different network density conditions by introducing alliance routines into this research framework.Thirdly,we deep the study on alliance routines,and provide important insight regarding the follow-up research in this field and how to improve innovation performance through properly levering alliance routines.The current research points out several directions for future research:Firstly,the variable of partnership can be measured from the perspective of relationship quality,relationship symmetry and relationship persistence,etc.Secondly,alliance routines may have different effects on radical innovation and incremental innovation.This study mainly investigates the moderating effect of alliance routines,and future research can explore the effect on radical innovation and incremental innovation.Thirdly,future research can be combined with different knowledge attributes to study the effect of relationship strength between enterprises and customers,suppliers,distributors and intermediaries on innovation performance under different network density conditions.
作者
刘景东
周萌
叶江峰
朱梦妍
Liu Jingdong;Zhou Meng;Ye Jiangfeng;Zhu Mengyan(School of Business,Anhui University,Hefei 230601,China)
出处
《外国经济与管理》
CSSCI
北大核心
2021年第7期111-125,共15页
Foreign Economics & Management
基金
国家社会科学基金项目(18BGL034)
关键词
网络密度
关系强度
创新绩效
联盟惯例
network density
relationship strength
innovation performance
alliance routines
